Finance committee  Regarding your first question, it's the result of a four-year study we undertook at the NRC that included a panel of peer reviewers of Canadian international experts in academics that looked at our current facilities footprint and the state of those facilities across the country.

Finance committee  Thank you. I'll be brief. What we found is that often some of our partners are waiting for some of our procurements to take place, some of our purchases to take place, in order to do a collaborative project with them. For example, if a company wants to come in, and we need a new

Finance committee  The question is about information technology. The Canadian economy, as a global economy, is becoming increasingly digital, so often products that we were manufacturing in the 20th century are now digital in the 21st century. Information technology is essentially the process of cr

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I'm going to answer in English this time. My name is Marcel Turcot. I am the DG of policy at the National Research Council. Essentially, the National Research Council holds a series of facilities—126 R and D facilities across the country at 24 locati

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I'm director general of policy at the National Research Council. What we are intending to do with this measure is speed up the operations of the NRC so we can better work with our Canadian business partners and academic innovators. At the NRC, we oft

Finance committee  It depends on what you're procuring. It depends on the financial limits, the types of contracts and the specifics that you want to put into the contracts. For example, if you have to go through Public Works and then get Treasury Board approval, that process can take six months to

Finance committee  Thank you very much. My name is Marcel Turcot, and I am the director general of policy at the National Research Council of Canada, or NRC. The NRC provides small and medium-sized businesses with access to centres, plants and other infrastructure. These are facilities they could