Government Operations committee  You're the ones who organize the budget; so organize it.

Government Operations committee  Yes. It's interesting, actually. We don't specify the distribution. There are no limits to how these get distributed across the various categories, so we didn't require them to be in one category or another. But in the first round, for instance, 100 were environmental; 38 were in

Government Operations committee  I think you're asking me how useful really is the feedback they're going to get from the Government of Canada. There are two things about participating in the program that I think are useful. The first thing is that they will get specific feedback about that good or service fro

Government Operations committee  In fact, it's a minimum of 20 projects.

Government Operations committee  Yes. The budget states that the minimum will be set at 20 projects during the program's pilot project. We already exceeded that minimum in the first call.

Government Operations committee  In the context of the first call, 27 projects are pre-qualified.

Government Operations committee  No, it was 27 projects.

Government Operations committee  Will I have to wait for two years?

Government Operations committee  We promote it any way we can think of. We use websites. We use other people's websites. We put out material. We go to trade shows. We go anywhere we're invited to talk about it. That's why I'm delighted to tell all of you, because I'm sure you'll tell two friends, and they'll t

Government Operations committee  Yes, absolutely. One of the things we try to do is to help companies figure out when this program fits into their journey of commercialization. We do it also by working with the various incubators across the country, and working with ACOA, WED, BDC, and all the agencies and org

Government Operations committee  It's a supplier-driven program. We're not doing the usual government demand pull, we're asking for supplier push. It's really about how responsive the industry is and we will be responsive to their enthusiasm. The truth is that one of the things that happens in a program like th

Government Operations committee  We're doing a lot of outreach with departments the way we do with suppliers so that they can become familiar with this program, because it's new to them also. This is a whole new way of getting things into the fold. So we're doing a lot of outreach and we've had really unmitigate

Government Operations committee  You don't want me to tell you about the specific criteria?

Government Operations committee  Once we've determined that a proposal is eligible under the program, we send the documents to NRC, IRAP, the National Research Council industrial research assistance program. Those people conduct two independent evaluations of the documents and then submit a list to us in the

Government Operations committee  But I do need to say we don't necessarily buy all the pre-qualified innovations, because even after that we need to make sure, first of all, that there is a department that would be interested in testing it so there's a usefulness in government and also that the company is actual