It varies by council, but the way that the councils are structured now, the councils per se, in the case of NSERC and SSHRC—and my colleagues here can speak to this a bit more—play an important advisory function but don't have a true governance function for the organization. There's a bit of a shift in terms of the way an organization is governed with that strategic oversight.
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