Accession consists of records created and/or maintained by the office of the Minister of Industry Allan Rock from January 15, 2002 - December 11, 2003.
The accession includes, but is not limited, to records relating to the following subjects: Audits; Communications (Ministerial Briefings); Industry Canada Operations (Veterinary College Infrastructure Funding, Delay - Drug Patents, Marketplace Framework Policy Branch, Baby Seals); Committees, Boards, Panels (Coordination Committee of Deputy Minister Policy, Senior Policy Committee, Cabinet Committee on Economic Union (CCEU) ); Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA); Memoranda to Cabinet; Programs Departmental (Community Access Program, Canada - Ontario Infrastructure Works, Various Regions); Economic Development Agency of Canada (EDAC); SchoolNet Program - various regions; Aboriginal Business Canada (ABC); Aboriginal Business Development (ABD); Native Economic Development Program (NEDP); Federal Economic Development Initiative in Northern Ontario (FedNor); Western Economic Diversification Program (WEDP); Technology Partnerships Canada (TPC); Federal Business Development Bank (FBDB); Science and Technology (Innovation Policy Branch, Tri-University Meson Facility (TRIUMF) KAON, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory; Advisory Council on Science and Technology, Canadian Space Agency, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL), Canada Deuterium and Uranium (CANDU) Reactor Sales, National Research Council (NRC), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research (NSERC), Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC); Aerospace; Economic and Statistical Analysis (Hockey - Post Funding Announcement; Strategic Policy, Federal Youth Strategy); Industrial Cooperation - Industries (Sweatshop Abuses, International Business, NAFTA; World Trade Organization (WTO), Auto Pact, Human Rights Issues in Sudan); Industries: Chemical - Petroleum and Industrial Chemical Products (Pesticides), Environmental (Climate Change), Machinery - Fuel Cell Technology, Metals and Minerals, Transportation - Boisbriand, Grain Transportation Reform, Bombardier; Wood - Softwood Lumber Agreement with the US; Biotechnology (HIV-AIDS, Canadian Biotechnology Strategy Task Force, Genome Canada); Tourism - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) ); Electronic Commerce Task Force; Telecommunications Policy; Television-Canadian Radio Television Commission (CRTC); Competition Bureau - Gasoline Prices, Merger Canwest/Black/Hollinger, Conrad Black); and Patents.
The accession also contains information on the final decision relating to the Harvard Oncomouse.
