Finance committee  Sorry, is your question what is the difference between the two bills?

Finance committee  I understand. Originally they had intended to have the administration of this fund conducted through a crown corporation that would have been established to administer the fund going forward. This bill eliminates the crown corporation model and replaces it instead with an appro

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly, from our perspective—

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. I'll be brief, Mr. Chair. DFO does a great job of managing our international relations, with fish management agreements that cover the planet, effectively. They're really, really onto that. From an economic development perspective, those projects have an impact on fi

Foreign Affairs committee  It's fascinating. In the north you get to the number of $23 billion because the size of the projects is so large. You simply cannot advance a project in the north unless it has significant size because of the cost of getting there. There's a lack of infrastructure. So that critic

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll try first. The north is changing, and that's going to require an immense government effort. We try to do two things in CanNor. One is to establish how much money we are spending up there as a federal government—and they're immense dollars right now. The other thing is to de

Foreign Affairs committee  It's a great question, and thank you for that. I'd have to say, since Canada was created we've developed one new program, and it was the northern adult basic education program. I take personal pride in that, because it's foundational. The participants in that program are people

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for the invitation to address the committee on the role the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, or CanNor, as we're generally known, plays in promoting economic development in our north, both domestically and a

Natural Resources committee  It just means that there are more partners and that the partners are sometimes different. As Janet mentioned, in the Yukon, the Yukon government has been “devolved” these authorities, which AANDC continues to exercise within the other territories. Land claims are also something

Natural Resources committee  The partners change; the role doesn't change. Our job is to align the federal efforts as best as possible. When AANDC is the regulator, as it is in two of the territories, they're the vital partner. In the Yukon, we don't have a federal partner to align, but we have to be cogniza

Natural Resources committee  No, it doesn't operate in the areas we operate in.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, actually.

Natural Resources committee  The regulatory process is one that's legislated. It's based, as I said, on acts of Parliament that have been approved. There are not elements to which you're referring with respect to climate change or greenhouse gas within that regulatory framework. Our job is to keep people fol

Natural Resources committee  My response was that the regulatory process itself does not contain provisions related to that particular aspect.

Natural Resources committee  Would you like me to try to—