Allow me to explain what we’ve been up to since the approval of Supplementary Estimates (B) 2022–2023, which announced the launch of the program.
Obviously, this was a project for which our department didn’t have much experience when it was announced last April. So we spent a lot of time in consultations with, among others, Minister Jenna Sudds, when she was Parliamentary Secretary, to ensure that the pilot project framework would truly work.
As you likely know, we also launched a competitive process to determine who would receive the full funding.