{"id":518,"date":"2010-12-02T01:54:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T01:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2010-12-02T02:14:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T02:14:48","slug":"diversification-of-the-nwt-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Diversification of the NWT economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yellowknife, <acronym title=\"Northwest Territories\">NWT<\/acronym><\/strong> \u2013 Thanks  to <acronym title=\"Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency\">CanNor<\/acronym>, the  Northwest Territories will continue to promote business, employment and tourism  opportunities to potential tourists, residents and investors in French-speaking  regions across Canada and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Honourable John Du<a href=\"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/John-Duncan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-519\" title=\"John Duncan\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/John-Duncan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/John-Duncan.jpg 307w, http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/John-Duncan-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a>ncan, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic  Development Agency (CanNor), today announced a federal investment of $253,000 to  support and expand Francophone marketing and recruitment campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Conseil de d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique des Territoires du  Nord-Ouest<\/em> (CDETNO) will use the funds to continue their activities to  attract new residents and investment, increase and improve tourism opportunities  and services, recruit and retain qualified employees, and diversify the local  economy. In 2009-2010 <acronym title=\"Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency\">CanNor<\/acronym> provided  $225,000 to support a number of targeted initiatives by <acronym title=\"Conseil de d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique des Territoires du Nord-Ouest\">CDETNO<\/acronym> that promoted the territory in Francophone communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFunding for these proactive marketing initiatives demonstrates the  Government\u2019s commitment to broaden and grow the Northern economy,\u201d said Minister  Duncan, who is also Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and  Federal Interlocutor for M\u00e9tis and Non-Status Indians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy raising awareness about Northern opportunities and attracting investment  and new residents to the Northwest Territories, our government is helping to  build a diversified and sustainable northern economy.\u201d said the Honourable Leona  Aglukkaq, Member of Parliament for Nunavut, Minister Responsible for the North  and Minister of Health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur attraction strategies are supported by a number of other organizations,  including aboriginal economic development organizations and the Government of  the <acronym title=\"Northwest Territories\">NWT<\/acronym>. We are thrilled with  <acronym title=\"Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency\">CanNor<\/acronym>\u2019s support  and are confident with the eventual positive impacts on the <acronym title=\"Northwest Territories\">NWT<\/acronym>\u2019s economy,\u201d said <acronym title=\"Conseil de d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique des Territoires du Nord-Ouest\">CDETNO<\/acronym> President, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Pitre.<\/p>\n<p>This investment is made possible through <acronym title=\"Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency\">CanNor<\/acronym>\u2019s  Strategic Investments in Northern Economic Development (SINED) program, which  focuses on long-term\u00a0 and capacity  building in all three territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellowknife, NWT \u2013 Thanks to CanNor, the Northwest Territories will continue to promote business, employment and tourism opportunities to potential tourists, residents and investors in French-speaking regions across Canada and Europe. The Honourable John Duncan, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor), today announced a federal investment of $253,000 to support and expand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16,8],"tags":[72,70,71],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-headlines","category-world-news","tag-economic-diversification","tag-john-duncan-cannor","tag-the-northwest-territories-sined-economic-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}