Industry committee  Certainly, Madam Chair. The item referred to by the honourable member relates to a small internal reallocation that was made to cover an exchange rate difference. The agreement we have that you've referred to is actually paid in a foreign currency, whereas the authorities that a

Industry committee  The $3.4 million that is proposed to be allocated to Western Economic Diversification is part of the $10-million envelope that is being spread across three organizations in the regional development agency portfolio. As Mr. Kennedy indicated, it is a top-up to existing funding of

Industry committee  No, it did not.

Industry committee  No, the money is over and above funding that has already been allocated.

Industry committee  The allocation that you see in the supplementary estimates (B) is simply a re-profiling of funds that were not used in a previous year. They've been carried forward so as to maintain the integrity of the envelope of funds. It's not a net addition to the program funding but just a

Industry committee  If I may, Madam Chair, as a normal part of government operations we do occasionally incur situations whereby, whether it's loans or grants and contributions, there's an inability to collect repayments. We have debt writeoff regulations that provide a facility for which to write d

Industry committee  All debt writeoff decisions are required to go through a departmental governance, and those records and decisions could be made available, I believe.

Industry committee  I believe so. I would have to confer with my colleagues at ACOA.

Industry committee  I'm sorry, I don't have that information.

Industry committee  Madam Chair, we do not have the documentation with us, but we'll be happy to take the question back and see what we can find across our portfolio. With regard to the second question, no, we would not have taken direction. Our role is to advise and allow the delegated officials t

Industry committee  We'll look at that in a reasonable period of time, within the next week or two.

Industry committee  Thank you very much for the question, and thank you, Mr. Kennedy. That's exactly the case. The main estimates don't reflect any of the funding that was appropriated to the regional development agencies, in particular, through the supplementary estimates (A) and (B). There were s

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, honourable members and officials, my name is Douglas McConnachie. I'm the CFO and assistant deputy minister of corporate management at ISED. I am grateful to have this opportunity to contextualize the remarks that were attributed to me in recent media reports related t

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the question. I'll give you the exact date. On February 16, ISED received the confidential file from PCO.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, the first working draft of the document we requested was delivered on September 8. That was a hastened version that hadn't been through their quality control process, because we were having internal discussions about the matter.