Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No, we were not contacted. We tried to see whether we could seek some corrections and were told it was too late. It was already being published.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There is a robust monitoring process in place that involves a number of parties, not just the companies themselves.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. Yes, there is an advisory committee with all relevant players. In fact, most of the major changes that we did recently were at the suggestion of ITK and NTI. We work with those external players. They are the ones who recommended the harvesters grant,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are two parts to the performance agreements, one of which follows from requirements from the clerk to the entire deputy minister community. The requirements then flow down into performance agreements for employees in individual departments. Then, yes, each director or each

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, they're departmental in the sense that as a deputy minister, I decide ultimately what those are and whether or not they have met them in the furtherance of the objectives of the department.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I hold them to account for the portion that they're required to do, and they have done that. However, as the deputy head, I am responsible for the performance of the department as a whole. Each of them is responsible for their portion, as I assign it to them, for the course of th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It does change each and every year, depending on the circumstances. As things are completed, we exchange them. As we find that things need to be repeated, we sort of repeat and amplify those things. However, many of the things we set out to do we did in fact do, so that's recog

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We think we did, but to be absolutely sure we got it right, we would like to do our checks, if we can, and get it to you later.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'm looking for the line and the number in question, and I'm hoping that the Chief Finances, Results and Delivery Officer, Ms. Bess, can help me.

Public Accounts committee  I'm convinced that if any people in the country can figure it out, it's northerners who can. They have a great incentive to do so and I'm sure they would find a way.

Public Accounts committee  I'm happy to speak to that. Not necessarily everybody knows that when you're standing in Alert, Nunavut, you are closer to Ukraine than you are to Toronto. The issue of the distances, and the differences of where you get supply from and what it costs to travel there, make for en

Public Accounts committee  It has been throughout. It is a program that has existed for a considerable period of time. In order to run the program, we have those groups. I'm looking for the formal names, so that I don't get them wrong. I will come up with them in a moment, but one is an Inuit group that we

Public Accounts committee  Sorry, this isn't just two individual.... This is a consulted thing for the entire north. Virtually every Inuit community is eligible for the harvester grants. That would be true for virtually every Inuit community in the north covered by nutrition north.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I'm comfortable saying that. There may be some odd circumstances, but it is a program that is of general application throughout the nutrition north-covered area, which includes just about everything north of 60. Fort Chipewyan, for example, in Alberta is, I believe, the only

Public Accounts committee  It was before, during and as we're coming out of it now, we might be able to say afterwards.