Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Chair. I can't speak for all of us, but I know that the clerk has asked the deputies to institute hybrid work models for public servants in the federal public service. All of us are working on hybrid work models, which means that we spend some time in the office and s

Natural Resources committee  No, we do not take an equity position. We provide funding, and it depends on our various programs. Each of us has some national programs, and we also have some very agency-specific programs. They are grants, they are contributions, and we have repayable loans and, in some cases,

Natural Resources committee  Each of us is different, and I can only speak for CanNor. It was just within the last couple of years that we began to do repayables, so we don't have a long history of doing that or a long set of statistics on the repayables. It might be better if one of my colleagues who has mu

Natural Resources committee  That particular project is taking place in Nunavut with the Quilliq Energy Corporation. It is a new type of energy generation potential in Nunavut. Nunavut is now 100% powered by diesel, and this is an Inuit regional corporation that is looking at the possibility of introducing g

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Chair and members. My name is Margaret Buist. I am the vice-president of policy, communications and northern projects at the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, or CanNor. I will be providing my opening remarks in both English and French. Like other regio