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Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm Janet King. I'm pleased to be here today. I've been the president of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, or CanNor, since July this past summer. With me today is Mr. Mitch Bloom, the agency's vice-president; Mr. Yves Robineau, our chief

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency was established, as was mentioned by the Auditor General, to support economic development across the three northern territories. We are housed in the north. We are deliberately headquartered in the north, so that we can be on the grou

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  We've done several streams of work responding to this particular question, the first being developing detailed program information for the two programs I mentioned earlier, the northern aboriginal economic opportunities program and the strategic investments in northern economic d

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  That's right.

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  I was previously with Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. I was responsible for their northern affairs organizations. I was in that job for about three and a half years. I did work very closely with CanNor. The two organizations share a lot of interests and we wor

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  I would like to comment that before I arrived, the agency had done substantive work both during the time of the audit and subsequent to the tabling of the audit in terms of addressing the issues tabled here, so substantive work had been done across the organization. You can see t

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  We have a commitment in this particular exercise to increase by nine, writ large, for our Iqaluit office, so we're working with our strategic staffing planning on a variety of positions to achieve that. In terms of moving positions north, we have to work with each position to ma

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  I'll start, and I'm sure Mr. Bloom will fill in should there be more details. As I mentioned earlier, significant work has been done to build the tools to enable our officers to be as efficient as possible in working with our clients moving forward. For example, a correspondence

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  On April 1 we implemented a tracking tool, OpSTART, to start collecting the information from across the three regional offices and from each one of the projects. That capacity is now available to take in the performance reporting going forward. As I mentioned in my remarks, we ar

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  All officers were trained in the comprehensive period of training at the time that these new tools were set up. What we're doing now is ensuring a training strategy going forward, so when we staff new officers or officers need refreshing, we have a continuous training program goi

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  We've developed a quality assurance tool which is a full checklist, if you will, of what's expected in the files and in the records pertaining to the projects. The economic development officers have all been trained in this, the managers are well aware of it, and our chief financ

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  As I said, I think that staffing in the north will always be a challenge because the labour market there is very limited and certain positions require specific skills. We have worked with all the managers to draft a strategic staffing plan that takes into account priorities and t

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  I'm sorry, I mixed up the two interpretation channels. Could you please repeat your question? I will remove the earpiece.

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King

Public Accounts committee  Not yet. I'll be frank with you. There are still gaps in certain areas for certain shortcomings. We are making staffing a priority.

December 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Janet King