Public Accounts committee  Elisha Ram, also from the Department of Finance.

Public Accounts committee  Perhaps I can answer that question, or at least give you some perspectives on it. As you mentioned, the broad objective for the community adjustment fund was to target smaller communities that were facing particular economic difficulties due to the economic recession. The inten

Public Accounts committee  I think that is a fair statement. Clearly job creation was an objective, the primary objective; it's just that the program was designed to make sure that at the community level there would be a priority placed on the kind of project that would be most pertinent to that community

Public Accounts committee  I think there clearly was an emphasis placed in the way that the overall Canadian economic action plan proceeded to be able to measure what the outcomes were in terms of job creation as well as broad economic impact. To the extent that there is a difference with the community ad

Finance committee  Good morning. I'm Elisha Ram. I'm with the economic development branch of the Department of Finance.

Finance committee  Good morning again. I'm still Elisha Ram with economic development at Finance.