The Government of Canada has no funding construct associated with that body. It is a body, to the best of my knowledge, unique in this country. In it, universities have often put the promotion of their own interests aside to come together and collaborate in the interests of military and veterans health research. It's run out of Queen's University in collaboration with the Royal Military College of Canada. At my last count, something in the order of 20 universities had signed on to that body in the pursuit of research, and they have done some very exciting work to date.
On October 24th, 2012. See this statement in context.