Finance committee  I have several thoughts. Some of the fly-in, fly-out is very much cost-based as well as skills-based, where to find the skills and knowledge that are needed to run those enterprises, activities projects, whatever they are. Fundamentally, it's building local skills capacity and ho

Finance committee  Mr. Chairman, thank you for the invitation to appear before this committee. As noted, my name is Janet King, and I am the president of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, more commonly known as CanNor. I am here to talk about Canada's North, specifically Yukon,

Industry committee  Certainly, yes. It would be.

Industry committee  Yes. I'll be brief. Yes, absolutely, seal hunting is a critical aspect of sustenance in many communities, particularly in the Inuit part of the north, the marine Inuit part of the north. It has been an ongoing source of food, clothing, and so on, and it is now a source of other

Industry committee  The northern greenhouse initiative was launched in summer 2014. It was actually CanNor's first effort as a new agency at an expression of interest, at trying to find out what technology interests were out there, in which we could invest to move greenhouse technology further along

Industry committee  I'll start, and I'll try to be brief. Tourism, as you can imagine, is a substantive interest for cultural, geographic, and subsistence reasons across the north. We invest quite heavily in tourism, again typically in partnership with the territories, often marketing their assets.

Industry committee  CanNor has been delivering this particular program, northern adult basic education program, for the last four years. There are three colleges in the north, one in each territory, and the program was designed to work with each one of the colleges to build its curriculum capacity a

Industry committee  Right. The colleges themselves were tracking the impact from their perspective, and we're very pleased with the results.

Industry committee  It was very positive. We are working with the colleges as they build a vision for what would be the next step in training and skills development from a post-secondary perspective again across the three territories. That's what we're working on this year with that one-year extensi

Industry committee  We're actually completing the evaluation on existing money, so the go-forward money is largely for working with the territorial colleges to create a business case for whatever comes next.

Industry committee  Perhaps I could begin on the descriptive front. The Northern Projects Management Office, I would say, is now established. It was brand new in 2010, built in 2011, and has been proving itself and building its clientele and its results since that time. To characterize it, it is abo

Industry committee  I'll take a first crack at that. Yes, we are now under one umbrella under Minister Bains and the Innovation, Science and Economic Development portfolio. It's proving to be tremendously interesting, as we share knowledge practices. Our people work together daily and weekly and ar

Industry committee  That and many more, yes.

Industry committee  Thank you for the interesting question. I didn't mention that CanNor was stood up at the same time as FedDev in 2009, and we grew out of the current INAC. At that time, it was decided to take the aboriginal programming that INAC had been delivering and give it to the northern ag

Industry committee  The program's good work continues, and we consolidated it. It had been quite fragmented across well-intentioned programs. We had the opportunity to consolidate the objectives, the performance measures, and the guidelines for how we deliver the program. We have brought a few inno