Accession consists of records created and/or maintained by the office of the Minister of Industry from October 17, 2000 - January 14, 2002.
The accession includes, but is not limited, to records relating to the following subjects: Airline Assistance to Air Canada after US Attack; Audits; Communications (Ministerial Briefings); Industry Canada Operations (funding for St John's Harbour Clean-up, Corporate Governance); Committees, Boards, Panels (Coordination Committee of Deputy Minister Policy); Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA); Memoranda to Cabinet; Treasury Board Submissions (Decisions); Programs: Economic Development Agency of Canada (EDAC); SchoolNet Program; Aboriginal Business Canada (ABC); Native Economic Development Program (NEDP); Federal Economic Development Initiative in Northern Ontario (FedNor); Western Economic Diversification Program (WED); Technology Partnerships Canada (TPC); Federal Business Development Bank (FBDB); Science and Technology (Innovation Policy Branch, Synchroton Radiation Facility, Tri-University Meson Facility (TRIUMF-KAON), Sudbury Neutrino Observatory; Network of Centres of Excellence, Advisory Council on Science and Technology, Canadian Space Agency, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL), Canada Deuterium and Uranium (CANDU) Reactor Sales; Aerospace; Economic and Statistical Analysis (Hockey-Post Funding Announcement; Unfair Tax Burden on Senators Hockey, Taxation Issues - Film Industry, Federal Youth Strategy); Industrial Cooperation - Industries (International Business, Sweatshop Abuses, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); World Trade Organization (WTO), Auto Pact, Human Rights Issues in Sudan); Industries: Chemical - Petroleum and Industrial Chemical Products -Pesticides, Oil Sands Expansion, Environmental - Climate Change, Machinery - Fuel Cell Technology, Metals and Mineral: Aluminum Company of Canada (ALCAN), Transportation - Boisbriand-auto, Grain Transportation Reform, Bombardier; Wood - Softwood Lumber Agreement with the US; Biotechnology (HIV-AIDS, Canadian Biotechnology Strategy Task Force, Genome Canada); Electronic Commerce Task Force; Telecommunications Review Policy (Information Highway, Canada's Cryptography); Television - Canadian Radio Television Commission (CRTC); National Broadband Task Force; Competition Bureau - Gasoline Prices, Cadbury/Schwepps and Coca-Cola, Merger of Canwest/Black/Hollinger, Content Regulations on Canadian Greeting Card Industry, Conrad Black -Newspaper Monopolies; Trademark Enquiries (dispute between National Hockey League (NHL) and the Canadian Wild Life Federation (CWF)).
The accession also contains Patents, including records on the final decision of the Harvard Oncomouse. In Harvard College v.Canada (Commissioner of Patents) the Supreme Court of Canada held that a higher life form is not patentable because it is not a "manufacture" or" composition of matter" within the meaning of "invention" in the Patent Act. An Oncomouse is a type of laboratory mouse that has been genetically altered.
Also, in addition, "Invitations" and "Minister's Visit and Business Trips" may contain attached briefing notes.
