Health committee  Sorry, it's the intellectual property mobilization program.

Health committee  It was a small program--$2 million--and it was designed several years ago with the other two granting councils to encourage particularly small universities to establish tech-transfer offices so they would manage IP at the location of the university. That was in an era when there

Health committee  I will answer your second question first, on the research data centres. You are correct that our MOU or agreement with those centres and Statistics Canada will be expiring during the course of the year, and we are currently looking at a renewal of that grant. However, it has no

Health committee  In terms of the IPM program, that was viewed as a program that was no longer effective. It was intended originally to be a catalyst program to encourage universities, particularly smaller universities, to establish tech-transfer offices.

Health committee  As I mentioned earlier, by far the largest reduction was to the open team grant program. That program is not a partnered program by design. There is a corresponding program, the strategic team grant program, which has more of a partnered nature, so that program was preserved. Aga

Health committee  I'll be pleased to answer the question. Thank you. This year, strategic review will result in a reduction to our reference levels of approximately $1.5 million. That is as a result of our no longer holding competitions under the open team grant program. Existing team grants will

Health committee  These are the nominal dollars, and they will continue to be. So over time, inflation would reduce and affect the amount of the reduction.

Health committee  In answer to your question, the process of strategic review is determined by the Treasury Board. It's the same process for all entities that undergo strategic review. They identify the criteria, which are those you would normally see in an evaluation: Is the program relevant? Is

Health committee  No, there was no consultation with any outsiders at all. In terms of the impact on existing multi-year grants, the nature of our reductions is such that no existing grant holder is affected. If you are a current recipient of a program that's terminating, you will continue to rec

Health committee  One of the considerations for any proposed reduction is that you do an impact assessment. The impact assessment looked at, among other aspects, regional distributional effects. Many of our programs are open, meaning that they're commonly available to all Canadians, so researche

Health committee  Thank you for the question. There is in fact funding for the drug safety and effectiveness network for CIHR. We have negotiated an MOU with Health Canada, which is the recipient of these funds in the first instance. They will be transferring the funds to us via future supplementa

Health committee  Yes. It's not reflected currently in our reference levels, but will be in subsequent supplementary estimates.

Health committee  The main focus is on our mandate, obviously, and we'll be looking for ways of implementing those reductions in a way that minimizes the impact, in terms of our reach for our mandate. So we'll be looking at it through that lens. Obviously, we invest in people heavily. It's one of

Health committee  As part of the pre-budget consultations, all departments and agencies were consulted. I really can't say much more than that, I'm afraid. It's part of the consultations.

Health committee  In our presentations we did look at what stimulus package the health research community could offer to Canadians.