Human Resources committee  I'm not in a position to answer questions related to expenditure review or to the process that was undertaken to do that, particularly for this initiative. These initiatives were not the responsibility of our department. It would therefore be inappropriate for me to comment on

Human Resources committee  Once again, I will ask my colleague Sylvain to answer those questions, because he's more familiar with the figures. I'm sure he can give you the exact figures about the leveraging effect the Canadian government's contribution might have in Quebec, for example.

Human Resources committee  We received the mandate to be responsible for developing a policy framework for the social economy. The social economy initiatives were the ones announced in 2004, and you're correct in saying that we received no funding through that initiative.

Human Resources committee  I believe I should defer that question to one of my colleagues from one of the agencies. He could answer that question probably better than I can.

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure I understand the question.

Human Resources committee  Right. I just want to make a clarification on the policy development issue. The mandate that we received was to develop a policy framework for the future of the social economy.

Human Resources committee  These programs are the responsibility of the regional development agencies, FedNor, Industry Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. I'm not really in a position to answer questions related to the actual rollout of the funds with respect to the 2004 initi

Human Resources committee  No. Actually HRSDC received no funding at all through the 2004 initiative. The 2004 initiative spread the moneys to each of the regional development agencies as well as to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Industry Canada and FedNor. We received no moneys.

Human Resources committee  Yes, I do.

Human Resources committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman. Mesdames et messieurs, membres du comité, bonjour. My name is Johanne Mennie. I am deputy director of policy development in the Community Development and Partnerships Directorate at Human Resources and Social Development Canada. My presentation will