Economic Development and Corporate Finance Branch
Economic Development and Corporate Finance Branch Organizational Structure
Assistant Deputy Minister: Richard Botham
- Associate Assistant Deputy Minister: Evelyn Dancey
Sectoral Policy Analysis
- Director General: Vacant - Evelyn Dancey (acting)
Microeconomic Policy Analysis
- Director General Greg Reade
Corporate Finance, Natural Resources and Environment
- Director General: Samuel Millar
EDCF – a snapshot
- 60 economists, policy analysts and support staff
- Providing economic and financial advice to the Minister on proposals considered by Cabinet and for the budget
- Exercising the challenge function in interdepartmental discussions on new policies and the management of large capital projects
- Policy and program development on micro-economic and sectoral issues
EDCF Policy Responsibilities
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Farm Credit Corporation
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Department of Fisheries and Oceans
- Canadian Coast Guard
- Department of National Defence
- Communications Security Establishment
- Infrastructure Canada
- Canada Infrastructure Bank
- Transport Canada
- Via Rail
- Federal Bridges (Champlain, Gordie Howe)
- Ports & Airports
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Parks Canada
- Impact Assessment Agency
- Natural Resources Canada
- Canada Energy Regulator
- Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.
- Canada Development Investment Corporation
- Trans Mountain entities
- Canada Hibernia Holding Corporation
- Innovation, Science, and Economic Development
- Federal Granting Councils (SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR)
- National Research Council
- Business Development Bank of Canada
- Regional Agencies (WED, FedDEV, FedNor, CED-Q, ACOA, CanNor)
- Canadian Space Agency
- Certain Crown Corporations
- Canada Post Corporation
- Canada Lands Company Limited
- Defence Construction Canada
EDCF – a vibrant policy shop
Analysts in the branch:
- Work closely with contacts within and outside the federal government
- Keep up with relevant economic developments, studies, and research
- Participate in interdepartmental policy review processes proceeding to Cabinet, and
- Represent Finance in consultations with other levels of government, the private sector, as well as NGOs and international organizations
Key issues we are working on
- Business competitiveness and growth
- Improving investment and export growth despite recent trade friction with key international partners
- Entrepreneurship and scale-up of Canadian companies
- Regulatory modernization
- Innovation
- Improving business-academic collaboration to translate research discoveries to commercial solutions
- Marketplace framework (e.g. privacy, IP, competition, etc.) to enable digital and data economy
- Promoting technology adoption by Canadian firms
- Rural broadband program rollout
- Environment and Resource Industries
- Environment and climate change priorities
- Clean tech adoption and sector development
- Environmental assessment and regulatory reform
- Natural resource sector competitiveness
- Ocean protection, regulation, and related economic development
- Transport and infrastructure
- Corridors to support trade and export diversification
- Infrastructure program roll-out and ramp up of Canada Infrastructure Bank
- New approaches for Indigenous infrastructure
- Other issues
- National defence and Coast Guard policy and procurement – jets and ships
- Oversight of the Canada Development Investment Corporation (CDEV), including the Trans Mountain entities
- Economic participation of Indigenous peoples in the Trans Mountain Expansion project
- Work with officials in Newfoundland and Labrador on Muskrat Falls hydro-electricity project
- Restructuring Government of Canada assets – Ridley Terminals
- Canada Post financial sustainability
- Managing industrial and regional adjustment pressures
- Improving service fee implementation and modernization processes to facilitate action to reduce cost recovery gaps at key Government departments and agencies
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