Industry committee  By virtue of my position as president of ACOA, the ACOA legislation stipulates that the president of ACOA is the chairperson of the Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation's board of directors. I have this optic into the ECBC operation as the chair of the board. The Honourable Mr. Re

Industry committee  I just wanted to add that the executive management of the corporation operates under a human resource management policy framework that includes principles of fairness and transparency and that, to the best of my knowledge, requires postings of jobs or seeks to manage processes th

Industry committee  I might just add that there's a subcommittee of the board members, the directors of the board, dedicated specifically to overseeing the corporation's human resources management. Its recruitment plans are actually approved at the board level.

Industry committee  To my knowledge, and I'm quite certain this is correct, there have been no human resource reductions at the corporation, and the very specific reason for this is that the corporation has actually grown, because it took on the responsibility of the closed other corporation, DEVCO,

Industry committee  DEVCO got folded into ECBC. So ECBC actually grew.

Industry committee  He is paid for the job because he was found to be qualified, was offered the job, he accepted it, and as a condition of employment he was allowed, as would any other public servant in that circumstance, to go immediately to language training. So for the first part, his job now—an

Industry committee  In first place obviously is the transformation of the Newfoundland and Labrador economy, which has been completely transformed from an historic have-not province to a “have” economy. It's allowed a certain distribution of wealth immediately from the players. Some of them are mult

Industry committee  Mr. MacAdam competed in a competition that was open to all Canadians right across the country.

Industry committee  He competed. He won the job. There were a few other candidates but he was clearly the winner. The language requirements and regulations around the job were such that he was able to compete as a unilingual candidate, and that's because of the history of staffing in P.E.I. So he

Industry committee  That's correct.

Industry committee  You raise a very good point and I can see your interest in that point. Please let me clarify. He was allowed to take on his language training where he resided at the time that he started it, because there was no relocation required for him, there was no travel status required,

Industry committee  No, there are no special or exceptional costs because he is in Ottawa versus Charlottetown.