Thank you, Mr. Fonberg and Mr. Chair.
There are two ingredients. First is a structural set of elements, which very much mimics the approach we took for the national shipbuilding strategy. There are three levels: coordination, oversight, and consensus decision-making.
The first level is a top-tier, deputy minister coordinating committee that I will chair. Colleagues here today will be with me on that committee. We also have ex officio members, which is not unusual—Treasury Board, Finance. This top tier will be supported by an ADM committee similar to what we did with the assistant deputy minister committee, similar to what we did for national shipbuilding. Mr. Tom Ring will chair that committee. These are colleagues who will be doing the tasking and pushing forward the agenda.
The actual working-level tier is the secretariat, people co-located from various departments who essentially carry out the work.
There is one point I would make about oversight and transparency. There is one variable, which is new for the secretariat, and that is the inclusion of two external members on the DM coordinating committee. We are in the process of selecting these individuals. This was not the case for the national shipbuilding strategy. I want to be clear, however, that we are going to use third parties throughout the work of that tiered structure. So third parties were used for national shipbuilding, and we will continue doing that, but the difference I'm making is that there will be two independent members on the DM coordinating committee as well.
That is a structure that will be superimposed on the actual seven-point action plan. We are now working at developing the terms of reference, which essentially will be the modus operandi of the committee structure, and from there we will move on to tasking and defining priority elements against the seven-point action plan.
At the macro level, this is where we are right now.