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Public Accounts committee Thank you. We agree that because of the diverse projects and proponents, it's very challenging to get consistent project-level data across that board. As I mentioned, even if you were able to get that completely consistent across 20,000-something projects, there still is a miss
March 13th, 2012Committee meeting
Douglas Nevison
Public Accounts committee As I said, even if it was consistent, it wouldn't be an appropriate measure of the job impact. But as the Office of the Auditor General has noted, there were consistency problems across projects. I think that would be expected across such a wide range of project proponents. Tha
March 13th, 2012Committee meeting
Douglas Nevison
Public Accounts committee The last report to Canadians, but the 2011 budget also had some updates. The last official report to Canadians was in January 2011.
March 13th, 2012Committee meeting
Douglas Nevison
Public Accounts committee We got away from referring to them as quarterly reports. My understanding was that the obligation for a quarterly was within the first year of the program. I'm not an expert on what the parliamentary motion was in terms of the report, but my understanding was that the quarterly w
March 13th, 2012Committee meeting
Douglas Nevison
Public Accounts committee As I mentioned, the methodology was laid out in both budget 2009 and an annex in budget 2010. It's all there.
March 13th, 2012Committee meeting
Douglas Nevison
Public Accounts committee No date's been determined. As I said, we're still looking at the most recent information we received. Once we feel this information has been verified, then the decision will be taken on when the report will be released. In terms of a particular date, we do know that the spending
March 13th, 2012Committee meeting
Douglas Nevison
Public Accounts committee I'd be happy to. As I mentioned, even though data was gathered at the project level, there was a feeling early on, based on previous experience and experience in other jurisdictions as well, that it's very difficult to get consistent job numbers across such a wide range of proje
March 13th, 2012Committee meeting
Douglas Nevison
Public Accounts committee Thank you. Just to follow up on your question, as I mentioned, in terms of tabling to Parliament, both budget 2009 and budget 2010 had the methodology for the jobs estimate that I mentioned, using the macroeconomic model. That methodology has been presented to Parliament on two
March 13th, 2012Committee meeting
Douglas Nevison
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. I may have misunderstood the question, but if you're talking about reports to Canadians, as mentioned by Mr. Campbell, the government has committed to doing a final report on the economic impact of Canada's economic action plan. Once we had all the relevant
March 13th, 2012Committee meeting
Douglas Nevison
Public Accounts committee Let me go back to the original question about assessment. While the Auditor General's office is correct that the final report on economic assessment is still to be drafted, I would point out that there have been a number of assessments done while the program has been in place. Th
March 13th, 2012Committee meeting
Douglas Nevison
Public Accounts committee Doug Nevison, from the Department of Finance.
March 13th, 2012Committee meeting
Douglas Nevison