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Public Accounts committee No. I'm proud to continue to work in the north. I think the mandate of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency is a very important one, for the reasons we've talked about. It is my pleasure to apply any skills I have to help them move forward.
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee I'm unable to speak to the specifics of the particular example that you provide but I can say that all contracts given by CanNor certainly follow the rules and procedures of contract implementation.
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee Again, I would just like to note that with respect to any contracts provided by CanNor we routinely and consistently follow government contracting procedures. Most, if not all—I can check with my colleagues—of our contracts are done through standing offer, so groups that have bee
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee As I said, I think that staffing in the north will always be a challenge because the labour market there is very limited and certain positions require specific skills. We have worked with all the managers to draft a strategic staffing plan that takes into account priorities and t
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee I'm sorry, I mixed up the two interpretation channels. Could you please repeat your question? I will remove the earpiece.
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee Not yet. I'll be frank with you. There are still gaps in certain areas for certain shortcomings. We are making staffing a priority.
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee I'm sorry, I just want to make sure I understand the question. That is the start-up of the organization— When CanNor was implemented it did inherit a number of very capable and knowledgeable officers from its predecessor organization as well, so we do have mature knowledge and c
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee On April 1 we implemented a tracking tool, OpSTART, to start collecting the information from across the three regional offices and from each one of the projects. That capacity is now available to take in the performance reporting going forward. As I mentioned in my remarks, we ar
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee All officers were trained in the comprehensive period of training at the time that these new tools were set up. What we're doing now is ensuring a training strategy going forward, so when we staff new officers or officers need refreshing, we have a continuous training program goi
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee We've developed a quality assurance tool which is a full checklist, if you will, of what's expected in the files and in the records pertaining to the projects. The economic development officers have all been trained in this, the managers are well aware of it, and our chief financ
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee I would like to comment that before I arrived, the agency had done substantive work both during the time of the audit and subsequent to the tabling of the audit in terms of addressing the issues tabled here, so substantive work had been done across the organization. You can see t
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee We have a commitment in this particular exercise to increase by nine, writ large, for our Iqaluit office, so we're working with our strategic staffing planning on a variety of positions to achieve that. In terms of moving positions north, we have to work with each position to ma
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee I'll start, and I'm sure Mr. Bloom will fill in should there be more details. As I mentioned earlier, significant work has been done to build the tools to enable our officers to be as efficient as possible in working with our clients moving forward. For example, a correspondence
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee We've done several streams of work responding to this particular question, the first being developing detailed program information for the two programs I mentioned earlier, the northern aboriginal economic opportunities program and the strategic investments in northern economic d
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King
Public Accounts committee That's right.
December 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Janet King