Official Languages committee  To address that question, it will probably be important to gather specific data or information. However, since I personally don't work in those offices, I can't report more specifically on their activities. I will be pleased to provide the committee with additional information o

Official Languages committee  Yes, it has.

Official Languages committee  Yes, it's important. We have definitely achieved some success through the regional development approach. As for FedNor, we've had very good success with some projects. In my remarks, I discussed a project that had been expanded to apply across all of northern Ontario as a result

Official Languages committee  Technically, the officer who provides the service is responsible for that. That means, in FedNor's case, that Mr. Dimatteo and his team are directly responsible for knowing whether there is staff, whether requests have been properly handled in the clients' language of choice, if

Official Languages committee  I wish we did, but no, we're not responsible.

Official Languages committee  I'm certain they'll be recorded.

Official Languages committee  In fact, it is the role of all employees to promote official languages for all the programs. However, in the case you are referring to, there is an accounting system in all departments which distinguishes funding under our economic development initiative program. That's what is r

Official Languages committee  Under the economic development initiative, we at Industry Canada are responsible for coordinating the activities of all regional agencies. We talked about meetings and standardization systems for the data and research that we conduct jointly on these mechanisms. We are there with

Official Languages committee  First, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada is responsible for training and skills development. That question could definitely be put to them. As for our department, we take our obligation to promote linguistic duality seriously. We meet that obligation in all the progr

Official Languages committee  The department's role in general is to support economic growth across the country. We want a regulatory framework so there is a solid and competitive market. We want to offer programs to help small and medium enterprises create jobs and grow. We have programs for all that.

Official Languages committee  In our case, it's Fed Nor. As for ACOA, the minister has his own report on plans and priorities. The funding is allocated directly to the deputy minister by Parliament.

Official Languages committee  I feel like asking, directives in what respect, but I....

Official Languages committee  Our staff work very actively with the policy groups in the department, in particular on new initiatives as they're coming forward in their early stage. We work with the policy staff and other organizations to go through the filter with them. Our key value-added is to bring forwar

Official Languages committee  In terms of the research, my colleague mentioned that there are essentially two aspects of the program. One is what I call more field research. For example, there's the business vitality index, which is a practical research tool to develop best practices in terms of a community

Official Languages committee  Thank you for the question. I'll pick up on the last point in the question, which I also addressed in the opening remarks. In particular, the advice from Mr. Lord, in terms of establishing the road map, was that the economic development activities under the strategy be driven by