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Human Resources committee  Alain, in his comments, referenced the Canada excellence research chairs, but there is also the Canada research chairs program, which provides funding for up to 2,000 academics across Canada in two tiers. To respond to your question about how we build it, there is a tier one, wh

March 26th, 2012Committee meeting

Shane Williamson

Human Resources committee  Yes. That was part of Canada's economic action plan introduced in budget 2009. Originally, all projects were to be completed by the end of March 31, 2011, but as you may recall, the original project deadline was extended to October 31 for eligible projects. So that's the timefram

March 26th, 2012Committee meeting

Shane Williamson

Human Resources committee  The deadline has passed now. It was October 31—

March 26th, 2012Committee meeting

Shane Williamson

Human Resources committee  Yes. Did I say 2012? I'm sorry if I did. That was the deadline.

March 26th, 2012Committee meeting

Shane Williamson

Human Resources committee  The extended projects had until the end of January to provide us with all of their audited reports and their statement of substantial completion. Of the 520, we had 189 that were extended past the original deadline, so we are still in the process of completing our review of the a

March 26th, 2012Committee meeting

Shane Williamson

Human Resources committee  That's correct.

March 26th, 2012Committee meeting

Shane Williamson

Human Resources committee  I could talk from the knowledge infrastructure program. We rolled that out in fairly quick time and we're quite proud of that. There were some issues on which we were able to work very closely with our colleagues in the aboriginal affairs department to sort out. Building permit

November 29th, 2011Committee meeting

Shane Williamson

Human Resources committee  Sure. My colleague mentioned in her remarks that the knowledge infrastructure program funded 52 projects in communities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants. Seven of those communities were actually in places with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. This program funded infrastructure im

November 29th, 2011Committee meeting

Shane Williamson