Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good evening everyone. Three amendments to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Act are being proposed in the bill. I will describe them very briefly. The first and perhaps most important is to separate the roles of president and chairperson of the

Finance committee  There are up to 18 members.

Finance committee  Yes, it is in part to capture the diversity of the health research community that is 13,000-strong in the country. There are so many different disciplines and so many sectors that we feel a board of that magnitude is needed.

Finance committee  However, we rarely have 18 members.

Finance committee  The term “policies” appears in two places within this section of the act, which creates confusion internally. The goal is to combine these two paragraphs into a single paragraph in order to give the Governing Council the authority required to establish all the organization's poli

Finance committee  Exactly.