I can't say for sure what was in the minister's mind when he made this decision. Certainly, ministers get advice from their departments, but they also have other considerations.
A move to the NRC—and the Auditor General has alluded to this—does help deal with some of the conflict of interest issues because the public service has very clear and strict rules about this. I was a public office holder for many years, and I've experienced it myself. In terms of reporting and accounting, those things will be simplified a great deal with the transfer to the NRC.
There are some synergies. IRAP has a lot in common with SDTC's programming. The people who work in it are in the field. Most of them are in the private sector or from the private sector. They deal with private sector companies, sometimes the same companies. There are some synergies, and in our preliminary meeting, the NRC recognized that. However, it's going to be a complex process to move private sector folks into a public sector organization. There's a lot of work to do.