My role was assistant deputy minister of clean technology, where I had a broad range of responsibilities related to policy and coordination, in particular. Part of the work involved the department feeding into other work of the pan-Canadian framework on climate change. We did a great deal of work around understanding the specific needs of industry, in terms of both regulatory requirements and capital to grow capacity.
SDTC was an organization that we saw as important within that catchment group of federal organizations that supported clean tech. We had an outreach and some standard relationship with them. We did have one or two staff members within the department who were specifically responsible for financial oversight of the organization, and those folks focused most specifically on understanding the details of what was required in terms of cash appropriations and the like.