Public Accounts committee  I don't have a lot of information on that. Having said that, we may need to work together. There is the agency, but there are other organizations as well—and not necessarily banks—including aboriginal financial institutions that provide some support. Some federal crown corporatio

Public Accounts committee  I would like to add something. The agency's role is to support businesses or individuals who cannot go to the banks. That is why the agency exists. We work to provide ongoing support to these organizations and businesses.

Public Accounts committee  I am proud to say that we are doing a lot to address this issue. As the president mentioned, we have created the northern adult basic education program to start the process that will help them gain the skills they need to work on these major projects. We will no longer have to hi

Public Accounts committee  Perhaps I can answer your question. It is absolutely essential to have several partners in the far north. We work closely with all members of the community, particularly when it comes to improving the performance of our programs. I myself began a process to update all of our pr

Public Accounts committee  Doing risk assessments is never easy, certainly not in economics and businesses. It's important, and the agency has reviewed its risk assessment tools to make sure they're up to date, current, and effective, and that happened. It was an opportunity, but it happens anyway. Under t

Public Accounts committee  I would only add that we used the opportunity, when we were building new mechanisms and their online systems, to gather the results, to also measure standards that we now set for completing the work from when we receive a completed application to when a final decision is rendered

Public Accounts committee  Interestingly enough, before I came in here I pulled out our departmental performance report, which is, as you know, a report to parliamentarians. It has our latest numbers with respect to the impact of our programs and our operations. You can't get fresher than that. It was tabl

Public Accounts committee  Measuring economic outcomes is probably one of the toughest things we do in this country. We have our central bank and countless others trying to measure that. Having said that, when we were created, we started a process of trying to find ways to measure the northern economy, wh