Kelly DeRidder on Questions Passed as Orders for Return

With regard to the recipients of funding from the Strategic Science Fund, since 2019: (a) what are the details of each company that received funding from the fund, including, (i) the name of the recipient, (ii) the amount of funding received to date, (iii) the total amount of funding awarded, (iv) a description of the project; (b) what are the stated details in their application, including the (i) proposed objectives that were clearly linked to federal priorities and responsibilities, (ii) listed value added to existing federal government investments, (iii) reason why no alternative federal sources of funding could be accessed by the recipient, (iv) previous federal funding sources that the applicant attempted to access prior to their application, (v) listed efforts made by the applicant towards equity, diversity and inclusion, (vi) listed performance indicators suggested by the applicant to measure their impact; (c) when the department is monitoring the performance indicators of the funding recipients, (i) how does the department determine whether the recipient is meeting their listed performance indicators, (ii) what efforts have been made by the department to monitor these indicators; and (d) what intellectual property or pre-commercial science has been developed as part of the funding?