Natural Resources committee  As I said when answering other questions earlier, that audit is only in its draft stage right now. I cannot share my own comments on that issue before the audit process in completed.

Natural Resources committee  That role belongs to the Comptroller General of Canada, who comes under the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. CanNor is a small organization. Consequently, the auditing is done by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, which comes under the—

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  I fully agree with you. Our goal is to have an effective and rigorous process. I myself am not sure of how long each project takes. Some projects are simpler than others. Some projects take several years and others take only a short time. They don't all require the same amount o

Natural Resources committee  I have a couple more to add. One is labour. There's a high emphasis, a high desire to be able to hire locally, especially in the north. With the cost of bringing labour in from the south and the ability to keep people working in the north, it's just way more expensive and way mor

Natural Resources committee  I'll give you an answer that's probably not what you're looking to hear. There are many players. There are the territorial governments. There are multiple federal departments. There's the private sector itself, quite anxious to become involved. I think your question points to the

Natural Resources committee  If I understood your question, I think it was also to ask what's the role of resource development in the north. I had an interesting experience in Alaska several weeks ago, and I put myself back in time 70 years. I was talking to a former governor and he was explaining what Ala

Natural Resources committee  What's interesting, I think, and Janet said this.... Maybe I can just reiterate in a bit of a different way. There's a legal regulatory process established by legislation approved by Parliament. Those are the processes we're responsible for in terms of making sure they're being

Natural Resources committee  Again, I would come back to Janet's comment. I think there are other departments that are perhaps--how should I put it--more mandated than we would be for an activity like that.

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely.

Natural Resources committee  I think I said our goal is to align the efforts of all federal partners, so it would be very important for any project proponent to make sure they've done the rounds throughout the federal government and all the departments with their own various responsibilities. There are other

Natural Resources committee  You actually have said it better than I could, so thank you for posing the question in that way. That is the goal, to become the one-stop single window for the private sector to get into understanding the regulatory process. Effectively the words I used were “pathfind for them”

Natural Resources committee  I chose my words carefully; I said “goal”. It's not perfect yet. I would be disingenuous if I said that. The function, which Don next to me leads, has been around for a little over a year and a half. It takes time to build up that credibility and that capacity. To say it's a goal

Natural Resources committee  No, it's actually a stand-alone department under the Financial Administration Act. I believe it's under schedule I.1.