Industry committee  It's one of the priorities of the digital strategy that the department is looking into. The goal is to ensure that all Canadians can benefit from Canada's digital revolution. In this context, we are now consulting the provincial authorities because it isn't just a federal respons

Industry committee  Since these are very diversified instruments that target various clienteles, it is difficult to identify one or two performance indicators for all the interventions. Having said that, one of the indicators we are looking at very closely is the following ratio: the amount associa

Industry committee  As you pointed out, it's currently a program administered by Industry Canada. As a public servant, I would say that it is less expensive to administer FedNor because the administrative overhead is shared by the entire department. If you consider each of the other agencies, you w

Industry committee  I do recall the motion of the previous Parliament, and I would emphasize “the previous Parliament”. I would say that at a general high level some are looking at the Investment Canada Act. At this point, there's nothing terribly specific in regard to changing the criteria that rel

Industry committee  The envelope amount that the committee focused on was $7 billion. We can divide that envelope into two major parts. The first is a tax credit administered by the Department of Finance. It's roughly $3.5 billion. It varies from year to year. The other part includes grants and is m

Industry committee  Given that those were budgetary initiatives by the Minister of Finance, my thoughts and imagination tend to be constrained.

Industry committee  I will ask my colleague, Michael Jenkin, who is the director general in the Office of Consumer Affairs, to provide some specifics. I would add two things, however, before Michael gives you the numbers. The Department of Industry provides consumer support partially through Michae

Industry committee  I'm told there will be an exercise in democracy, when you will all be invited to vote, which will interrupt our proceedings. The opening remarks Kelly was going to make have been circulated. Why don't we deem those read and you can go to the questions now?

Industry committee  As part of the economic action plan that was put forth in the 2009 budget, there were a number of specific initiatives the government identified. In the Department of Industry, for example, we had the knowledge infrastructure program. We had the marquee tourism events program.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Dodds and other FedNor collaborators participated in this famous meeting that you have the minutes for.

Public Accounts committee  What I'm trying to say is that taking part in a meeting doesn't mean that these people were necessarily involved in making a subsequent decision. They were there because it was part of their job to contribute to the discussion. As Minister Clement said, quite a lot of things happ

Public Accounts committee  No, no. What I said was that they attended a meeting, maybe two meetings. They were there as public servants because FedNor is responsible for tourism in northern Ontario. There's a difference between sitting at a table and being involved in the decision-making process.

Public Accounts committee  In regard to the G-8 summit, as Minister Clement mentioned, FedNor, which is a component of Industry Canada, did have four projects. I believe one of my ADMs testified to a committee last year or the year before and described exactly what those four projects were about. FedNor,

Public Accounts committee  No, no; I would take exception to that.

Public Accounts committee  Industry Canada was involved in the economic action plan through the knowledge infrastructure program primarily, which was a $2-billion fund to enhance post-secondary education infrastructure. It was for universities and colleges. We, in turn, leveraged another $2 billion from pr