Industry committee  The one thing I would further say is just that the two changes—notice and notice, and the changes with respect to the board itself—were really seen as actions that needed to be taken now. This is not to preclude the work that you would be doing as a committee. Again, there's a lo

Industry committee  This is a question you should ask Minister Bains. I believe the answer is no.

Industry committee  On this issue, we just met with the provinces to talk about developing a broadband strategy. In terms of the desired outcome, the 50/10 goal certainly remains in place. I think that for certain jurisdictions, in the north for example, reaching the 50/10 is a challenge. This was

Industry committee  I am not aware of the target actually changing. On what basis are you saying that?

Industry committee  As I understand it, in the discussions that I've had with the CRTC chair, he continues to want to pursue that long-term goal.

Industry committee  You are referring to their $750-million program and how they're proceeding. Is that what you're referring to?

Industry committee  Well— Sorry, do you want to comment?

Industry committee  Well, I did give an answer, which was that as far as I know, in my discussions with the chair—

Industry committee  No, I said that we have just been discussing with the provinces, in the context of the commitment to basic service, how we need to work together more effectively to develop a long-term strategy that will meet the 50/10 goal. In our discussions with the CRTC chair, he is impleme

Industry committee  Yes, we do. We track it and we use evaluation methods as well as audit procedures to do that. Backing way up and avoiding your question somewhat, just to clarify, what we did in this innovation review was to really identify four platform delivery agents. One is the regional dev

Industry committee  BDC of course is part of this mix.

Industry committee  Okay, that would be great.

Industry committee  Well, I think it's both the department as well as working with the minister in terms of how we move forward. As you know, in the budget implementation act there were two fundamental focuses: notice and notice, as well as changes to the Copyright Board.

Industry committee  Lisa, can you speak to the specific issues around funding?

Industry committee  I think what has happened is that the National Research Council has received $540 million in budget 2018, and in budget 2017 there was $700 million specifically for IRAP. I think people are looking at the delivery of IRAP broadly, partly in the context of a review that was condu