Finance committee  The Department of Human Resources and Skills Development, and in particular the branch in which I work, the Strategic Policy and Research Branch, has the capacity to undertake research and analysis in the area of poverty, including other areas. There are no plans right now to inc

Finance committee  Yes, there are.

Official Languages committee  I mentioned those two agreements in particular because they are quite important and because I know them well. Furthermore, to my knowledge, this is generally something important that is provided for in agreements with the provinces and territories. There is a need to consult the

Official Languages committee  Could I add to that and say that, by design, the enabling fund was intended to leverage funds? It was not intended to be 100% funding for these activities.

Official Languages committee  Well, three to one—

Official Languages committee  We have completed a formative evaluation, and it's up on our website. It's not a summative. It looked at the early implementation and some of the early results. It did confirm both that there were partnerships that were built and that there was this leveraging effect of roughly $

Official Languages committee  I can mainly talk about two types of important agreements, the labour market development agreements, the LMDAs, and the labour market agreements, LMAs. Those two types of agreements include the obligation to consult the communities and to provide services in both official languag

Official Languages committee  I imagine there was, but I don't have—

Official Languages committee  Certainly.

Official Languages committee  In the case of the research pilot projects, the expenditures are not the same every year; they are highly variable. There are higher costs in the years in which we gather information. The purpose of the project is to offer the service, and we wait a year or two before following u

Official Languages committee  In fact, we allocated all the moneys necessary to that pilot project, but there was money left near the end. So we identified other research projects in that same area of interest. In fact, we didn't need all the amounts that had been allocated at the start of the Roadmap. As re

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  I have worked at the department for about 10 years. So I was there when the Roadmap was established. On the one hand, there was less of an impact on the department because, for a long time, it had had activities designed to support the communities. A number of those activities c

Official Languages committee  It isn't finished for us. However, we are in the process of doing it.

Official Languages committee  As regards us at the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development, I can say that I can answer those questions right now, with the exception of the last one. We have framework regulations on privacy that prevent us from making a connection between specific answers and ind