International Trade committee  I think you'd be hard pressed to find a sector in Canada that's not affected by labour shortages. That's the reality that we have right now, and you see that playing across all sectors. In Atlantic Canada, certainly a large part of our export industry is around seafood and seafo

International Trade committee  Of course. I think, again, that's a question that's being faced all over the country and all over the world, quite frankly. Businesses are definitely investing in housing for their workers—it's temporary in most cases and in some cases it's more permanent—especially those busines

International Trade committee  I mentioned the trade and investment growth strategy. Essentially, it is a $20-million, five-year federal-provincial agreement shared between ACOA and the four Atlantic provinces. They all sit around the table. We're all contributing financial partners. As well, on the federal s

International Trade committee  Sure. For example, REDspace are a Nova Scotia company working in IT and media platforms. They're a part of a market export development program. Through that, they have signed two new partnership agreements. They get sales in the neighbourhood of $250,000, and they've generated a

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, members of the standing committee, for the invitation. I'm pleased to be joined here today by my colleague, Dave Boland, who, as you mentioned, is the vice-president and assistant deputy minister for our office in Newfoundland and Labrador. Fo

Official Languages committee  For sure, absolutely.

Official Languages committee  That may take another week, because I now have a long list of questions for which I have to give you an answer in writing.

Official Languages committee  Yes, it's relatively new, so—

Official Languages committee  We're going to work with them in close conversation and figure out the best way to work with them. Our number one objective is to think about what it is that businesses and the communities need.

Official Languages committee  I can't speak for them, but in terms of our relationship, no.

Official Languages committee  Yes, there is. In terms of the secondary schools, we do have partnerships and projects that we support. For example, at Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick they have—I'm not scientist—a moulding technology there. We help support them on how they can use their technology a

Official Languages committee  That's a relatively new organization, so we're just starting a relationship with them. I'll take a step back, in terms of talking about what we do regarding francophone immigration. First of all, one of the biggest initiatives we had in Atlantic Canada was the Atlantic immigr

Official Languages committee  The $6.2 million, in our case, is almost entirely going out to communities and to businesses to help support the priorities of the economic development initiative: to help businesses grow, to help support tourism and to help communities. I think, in our case, less than $500,000 g

Official Languages committee  That's over the entire five years.

Official Languages committee  In terms of delivering on the $6.2 million, $5.5 million, give or take, goes out the door to businesses. When we get that money from the centre, from Treasury Board and Finance, it specifically says that this is the amount of money that's allocated to allow for the operations and