Asmall step has been taken in the directionof a nationalagency with the creationof the CanadianCoordinatingOfficeforHealthTechnologyAssessment, fundedbyOttawaandthe provinces.
This is especially important after the demise of the OfficeofTechnologyAssessment, a research office within Congress that, until the mid-1990s, provided independent analyses on issues up for congressional debate.
Most of the munitions destined for China under previously signed arms contracts whose transfer the President temporarily suspended are not scheduled for delivery until at least 1991, according to the OfficeofTechnologyAssessment.