Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I will try my best, but I can come up with a more thorough answer. We know that this project synopsis report is a key document to go further in potentially getting other funding if the decision is made to go ahead with this highway. So we've really been funding this PSR. CanNor

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. We'll come back.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Our management team is now trained and complete. We completed it over the last few months. With regard to our employees who work in various regional offices, as I mentioned earlier, we now have the office space we need in Whitehorse and Yellowknife. The staffing process is curren

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It is likely the case, but I will try to consult the transcripts of that discussion, because I cannot remember. I was not here in March, but I will be able to provide an answer to your question by consulting my colleagues. If you will allow me, I can ask our office staff to send

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, it's in answer to the question about education from Mr. Lévesque. As I mentioned, Mr. Lévesque, the question you are asking me should probably be addressed to Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. In fact, it has specific programs, and my colleagues who work in tha

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With respect to the Mackenzie gas project, the Major Projects Management Office is working right now with the different partners and stakeholders on this project. On May 3, CanNor launched the NPMO, Northern Project Management Office, and the role we're playing right now is to at

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, Mr. Bagnell. I can speak for our priorities in the north, and right now one of them is diversification of the economy. That's why I've been emphasizing at the committee that CanNor is investing in different sectors of the economy, because one of our main goals is diversifi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Many of the 202 projects that I spoke of are not yet announced, but I will share the list of projects approved and announced.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, good morning. My name is Michel Robillard, Vice-President of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, CanNor, and the agency's official languages champion. Today I am accompanied by Yves Robineau, head of finance. Patrick Borbey, th

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. First, we work in close cooperation with the francophone communities, which are linguistic minority communities in the north. Some 2.5% of the total population of the high north live in francophone communities. For them, we have used the funding provided t

Official Languages committee  In Nunavut, for example, we are trying to attract francophone entrepreneurs. That is why we have just financed a business incubator project there. This is a place where there are many business opportunities, but where the wherewithal is not always there. If we can develop this bu

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chair, I'm not a tourism expert, but I will do my best to give you an intelligent answer. I believe that the Olympics did a lot to help make the north known. We know that Canada's Northern House, which was on site in Vancouver, was a major success. It introduced people to th

Official Languages committee  That is why Table 867 worked with CanNor so that we could get funding to target those sectors in particular. I know that, last year, or two years ago, people from CDÉTNO went to Europe. They were invited to go and present the beauties of the Northwest Territories. So there is a t