Industry Committee on May 13th, 2010

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard.

Please be brief, Mr. Boothe or Mr. Watson.

[Daniel Watson]

I would say, very quickly, that Western Economic Diversification grants no subsidies to private companies. There therefore is no timeframe.

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

Very well.

Mr. Boothe.

[Paul Boothe]

I will research the question and give a written answer, but I'm not aware that there are criteria laid out for the exact timing.

As far as the delegation of authority goes, I would just say that in general the form of a department is under the authority of the deputy minister, although the aims of the department and the budget of the department of course belong to the minister, and ultimately to Parliament.

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

Thank you very much, Mr. Boothe.

Thank you to our witnesses.

We'll suspend for just two minutes to allow the witnesses to depart. Then we'll return to vote on the estimates.

This meeting is suspended.

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

We are resuming our meeting.

We have about 30 votes to vote on and we're going to go through each one of them. The amount of money we are approving is in excess of $7 billion, which is under three different headings.

The committee has three choices with respect to each vote: the committee can adopt the vote, the committee can negative the vote, or the committee can reduce the vote.

We'll begin in the order in which we've been given them, beginning with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

ATLANTIC CANADA OPPORTUNITIES AGENCY

Department

Vote 1--Operating expenditures..........$84,797,000

(Vote 1 agreed to on division)

[Marc Garneau, Liberal, Westmount—Ville-Marie, QC]

Which document are you following?

[Dave Van Kesteren, Conservative, Chatham-Kent—Essex, ON]

None of us has a document.

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

The question of which order I am following has been asked. I'm following the orders of the day. On the orders of the day, the votes are listed.

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

Votes 1, 5, and 10.

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

I've taken the amounts from the estimates in the big blue book. On the orders of the day, the votes are listed in order.

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

Mr. Chair, to speed things up a little bit, can we take the votes that are assigned to the different agencies?

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

Just one minute, Mr. Wallace. Let's just tend to Mr. Garneau's question.

On the orders of the day, the votes are listed. I'm following that order.

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

Can we do them in chunks under the agencies under which they're listed? Instead of doing votes 1, 5, and 6, we could do all the votes under the Region of Quebec.

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

We're currently on vote 5 for ACOA, so I'll call that vote.

Shall vote 5 under ACOA carry?

ATLANTIC CANADA OPPORTUNITIES AGENCY Department Vote 5--Grants and contributions..........$288,876,000

(Vote 5 agreed to on division)

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

Shall vote 10 carry?

ATLANTIC CANADA OPPORTUNITIES AGENCY Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation Vote 10--Payments to the Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation..........$83,070,000

(Vote 10 agreed to on division)

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

Shall vote 1 carry?

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF CANADA FOR THE REGIONS OF QUEBEC Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec Vote 1--Operating expenditures..........$47,083,000

(Vote 1 agreed to on division)

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

Shall vote 5 carry?

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF CANADA FOR THE REGIONS OF QUEBEC Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec Vote 5--Grants and contributions..........$376,443,000

(Vote 5 agreed to on division)

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

We'll now go to the votes for Industry Canada.

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

Could we please lump them all together, Mr. Chair?

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

Would you like to adopt all the votes for Industry Canada?

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

It can be on division if they want; I don't care.

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

So it's votes 1 through 105 inclusive. It is the wish of the committee to adopt them all at once.

Shall all those votes carry?

INDUSTRY Department Vote 1--Operating expenditures..........$365,256,000 Vote 5--Capital expenditures..........$10,730,000 Vote 10--Grants and contributions..........$1,294,657,000 Vote L15--Payments pursuant to subsection 14(2) of the Department of Industry Act..........$300,000 Vote L20--Loans pursuant to paragraph 14(1)(a) of the Department of Industry Act..........$500,000 Canadian Space Agency Vote 25--Operating expenditures..........$252,278,000 Vote 30--Capital expenditures..........$81,394,000 Vote 35--Grants and contributions..........$46,292,000 Canadian Tourism Commission Vote 40--Payments to the Canadian Tourism Commission..........$100,643,000 Copyright Board Vote 45--Program expenditures..........$2,818,000 Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario Vote 50--Operating expenditures..........$34,011,000 Vote 55--Grants and contributions..........$469,523,000 National Research Council of Canada Vote 60--Operating expenditures..........$361,305,000 Vote 65--Capital expenditures..........$48,115,000 Vote 70--Grants and contributions..........$213,048,000 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Vote 75--Operating expenditures..........$42,511,000 Vote 80--Grants..........$973,263,000 Registry of the Competition Tribunal Vote 85--Program expenditures..........$1,907,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Vote 90--Operating expenditures..........$23,652,000 Vote 95--Grants..........$648,765,000 Standards Council of Canada Vote 100--Payments to the Standards Council of Canada..........$7,129,000 Statistics Canada Vote 105--Program expenditures..........$491,001,000

(Votes 1, 5, 10, L15, L20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100 and 105 agreed to on division)

[The Chair, Conservative, Michael Chong]

The final set of votes under Western Economic Diversification includes two.

WESTERN ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION Western Economic Diversification Vote 1--Operating expenditures..........$54,895,000 Vote 5--Grants and contributions..........$368,189,000

(Votes 1 and 5 agreed to on division)