The National Research Council, in its mandate, is to do research and develop technologies that can be put in the hands of those who can actually execute on them for the benefit of Canada and Canadians. Our mandate goes beyond research.
To do that, we need to make sure that we engage all of the capabilities of the ecosystem and provide a way of convening the best players, the best minds and so on to provide that research and that technology.
One of the things we did, starting in 2017, was create what's called the collaborative science, technology and innovation program, which basically facilitates not NRC trying to do everything and trying to bring more money into the NRC, but rather engaging others and funding them so that we can get the best possible, both in Canada and internationally, to provide solutions for Canada. That could be done at the early stage of research or at the later stage, where the technology research levels need to be closer to commercialization.
We are not really doing the same thing as the council. Rather, we're complementary. We engage with them and leverage—