In the United States i am sure you are very aware that we are in the midst of significant budget battles and dysfunctions one might say, and for those of us who watched defense we are particularly the implications of that for u. S. Defense strategy and planning. Im wondering how you would describe the cuts in defense in canada. I dont think you have quite the political environment we do right now but surely you must have the same sense of general interest in how canada plans to go forward and again strategically where canada wants to be in terms of its role in the world and how to underwrite that with military capability. I would love to hear a little bit about the efforts underway in canada including your own defense reform initiative. That looks to cut inefficiencies to free up some funds. Good for you youve got the name right. The defense renewal team has worked a year. One of the first tasks in taking on this position was the direction to maintain everyone and the numbers that i ha
A day else a portion of the sheriff shared lending to small and microbusinesses. Because of that 4 billiondollar investment in 332 institutions across the Country Community banks or cdfi loan funds, we have seen positive returns for taxpayers so this is no cost to the taxpayer and we are also seeing that lending has increased by more than 10 billion so we take that 4 billion investment. As a result the institutions have loaned more than 10 million above and beyond the lending that they were doing beforehand. What that actually turns into is around 41,000 new loans to Small Businesses. It also means that of those loans, i think we are somewhere around 65 or 70 of those loans were below 100,000, so these are actually loans that are going to the smallest of Small Businesses, not midsize businesses that getting the businesses that are going to be the job creators and are the job creators. We also invested through another program called the state smallbusiness Credit Initiative 1. 5 billion
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Your excellent reputation precedes you thank you for being here. Thank you. Robert woods. Good morning brother. Good morning. My name is robert one side i want to talk about two things. Forensic is the ged program at the a b you. We were funded by the puc the first year and i think its moving over to the economic and Workforce Development for the second round of funding. But the thing about it this there is a Digital Divide and under the new ged program its going to be computer liz i railways. We need computers to get us rode we have 15 applicants that applied for ged our 15 applicants over the years 11 of them got their ged and thats a good number. When it was already stayed they 2k0ub9d anyone from the community would ever pass the ged we had 11 people that passed. Secondly, weve been fighting about that 18 hundred oakdale who owns the building. And we need to know this right now. Who owns the building . This building when i was first working on this building it was delivered to the