Industry committee  Mr. Chair, the government accounting is always done in nominal dollars; that is, the main estimates and votes are all based on nominal dollars, not inflation adjusted. The tables you've seen are....

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, if the question is about the information available from Statistics Canada, as you say, it provides both nominal and inflation adjusted, depending on which particular table you're looking at. That information is widely available.

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. Mr. Chair, as the minister was explaining, what the government chose to do in their regional economic action plan primarily for science and technology was very stimulus based with the idea this is something that would begin and it was something that w

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, I believe that program is administered by FedNor.... Is that an Industry Canada program? That's one of yours? Okay. I'm sorry.

Industry committee  The figure is correct. I think, as the minister was saying earlier, though, there's no official program that only supports discovery research, as opposed to a program that supports applied research. Some of the activities that take place, that people under NSERC apply for as a di

Industry committee  Yes, because in terms of IRAP delivering the IRAP program, last year they had $90 million, and this doubling will—

Industry committee  Yes, to $180 million. There's another element to what was announced in the budget, which is increasing their value-added service—the concierge service—and that's what's being ramped up. The full ask for that is not being made at this point.

Industry committee  That's right.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. All I can really say is that the government was very clear from the beginning that this was a temporary program we were asked to administer. If others wish to make that suggestion to the government, it's really not for us in the public service to make

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. If I understand the question correctly, the way the government ran this program was that applications were received either by the institutions themselves or, in the case of Quebec, through the Quebec government, with the provinces indicating which projects

Public Accounts committee  I would add a little bit, Mr. Chair. Obviously building the capacity of universities and colleges has a tremendous potential impact in the future. Mr. Kramp mentioned Capilano University as an example of that. The areas that KIP supported included repair and maintenance, which

Public Accounts committee  We haven't mentioned our partners in the provinces and territories very much. Obviously, in the case of KIP, almost all of our projects were shared fifty-fifty on eligible costs. They mobilized very quickly, and we were able to engage with them to make the choice of the final pro

Public Accounts committee  In the case of KIP, the knowledge infrastructure program, where we had partnerships with the provinces and territories, we depended on their reports, which we had monitored by the outside expertise in engineering as well, so we received reports from both.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. We had our unique challenges at Industry Canada, in that we had never run an infrastructure program before, so we had some basic set-up to do that others didn't. We got tremendous support from Infrastructure Canada, which took us through some of the unique

Public Accounts committee  Rob Dunlop, from Industry Canada, along with Shane Williamson, who is executive director of KIP.