Natural Resources committee  Yes. Thank you for the questions. Indeed, the organization was established a little over two years ago, in August 2009. Its current annual budget is $44 million. That's $30 million of what I would call program funding. Those are the contribution programs that we operate, some of which I made reference to earlier.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. On behalf of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, I want to thank you for asking us to appear with you today with our colleagues from the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. I'll keep my remarks brief in order to provide the committee with as much time as possible to pose questions in support of your study on resource development in the north.