Industry committee  If you think about the philosophy of the blue ribbon panel, it's applied here in terms of facilitating the lives of the promoters. Instead of dealing with multi-faceted departments of one government, they deal through one.

Industry committee  Manon seems to be volunteering here.

Industry committee  It's their contribution. It's the same conversation that we had earlier about money committed versus money spent. In order for the organizer to be able to document the rest of the file and get the money.... Just to give you numbers, we're going to have 3,500 participants from 100

Industry committee  Those conferences are always organized quite some time ahead. We also have the World Energy Congress, which I think will come to Montreal in 2011. When I heard that this one, the World Congress on Information Technology, was for 2012, that was quite normal. They organize it quite

Industry committee  For CAF, with the Quebec-Canada agreement, we put in $115 million and they put in $115 million, so it's one for one. On RInC we put in $113.2 million, the province put in $111.2 million, the municipal government $166.8 million, and the native community $2 million. It's much bigge

Industry committee  I have just received those numbers. Do I have time?

Industry committee  It's about the same. The pickup on FAC was much quicker, obviously. I explained earlier as well that because we have the legislation called Bill M-30 in Quebec, we had to go through the Province of Quebec before we were able to deal with the communautés. Because the election was

Industry committee  As my colleague from Atlantic Canada was explaining earlier, CED's programs operate primarily at the grassroots. The applications we receive come from non-profit organizations, SMEs and a variety of other non-profit agencies. The programs are analyzed based on the program framewo

Industry committee  The minister gave instructions to establish a private company/NPO ratio that would be more consistent with what he wanted. Also, transition plans were also given to some types of NPOs, which then had three years to find funding. That three-year period is ending for some organiza

Industry committee  Would you like us to do the same thing we offered to do earlier? We do not know the answer off the top of our head. If you like, Mr. Bouchard—

Industry committee  Yes, we will send it to the clerk. What is the name of the organization, Mr. Bouchard?

Industry committee  Under the Economic Action Plan which you refer to, and which was announced approximately one year ago, my colleagues are able to deal directly with municipalities, school boards or other such entities; however, because of Bill M-30 which is in force in Quebec, the federal governm

Industry committee  If I may say so, that's exactly the principle. It basically goes back to the Financial Administration Act. Under section 32, we commit toward certain work, and under section 34, we have to receive confirmation that the work is done, by receipts and other proof. There, it is secti

Industry committee  If you look at the genesis of section 34, you'll see that this is where we look at value for money. To be able to evaluate value for money, we need to have proof that the work took place. We need invoices and other different kinds of proof.

Industry committee  Are you talking about the CFDCs?