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Section III: Supplementary Information

Financial Highlights

Condensed Statement of Financial Position
As at March 31, 2011 ($ thousands)

	% Change	2010-11	2009-10
Total Assets	0.42	820,379	816,923
Total Liabilities	-6.92	312,905	336,152
Equity of Canada	5.55	507,474	480,771
Total	0.42	820,379	816,923

Condensed Statement of Operations
For the year ended March 31, 2011 ($ thousands)

	% Change	2010-11	2009-10
Total Expenses from Continuing Operations	-2.04	1,000,631	1,021,439
Total Revenues from Continuing Operations	7.13	169,785	158,482
Net Cost of Continuing Operations	-3.72	830,846	862,957
Net Cost from Discontinued Operations	963.24	723	68
Net Cost of Operations	-3.65	831,569	863,025

Financial Statements

This general overview of NRC's financial position and operations are presented on an accrual basis for comparability with the complete financial statements published on the supplementary information page for NRC's DPR 2010-11.

List of Supplementary Information Tables

All electronic supplementary information tables found in the 2010-11 Departmental Performance Report can be found on the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's web site.

• Details on Transfer Payment Programs (TPP)
• Green Procurement
• Horizontal Initiatives
• Internal Audits and Evaluations
• Response to Parliamentary Committees and External Audits
• Sources of Respendable and Non-Respendable Revenue
• User Fees Reporting

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Section IV: Other Items of Interest

Organizational Contact Information

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Additional Information

NRC Council

NRC's Council provides strategic direction and advice to the President and monitors progress against strategic plans. The Minister of Industry may also consult the NRC Council for advice on matters that affect NRC and that are of importance to science and technology in Canada. The Council usually meets three times a year and has three standing committees: the Executive Committee, the Human Resources Committee and the Finance Committee. The Council is chaired by the President of NRC and the other members are appointed by the Government of Canada for three-year terms. Current members are as follows. An updated list is maintained on NRC's web site along with biographies of the members.

John R. McDougall – President (and Chair of Council), National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario

Jacques Beauvais – Vice Provost of Research, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec

Paul Clark – Former Vice-President, Research and Technology, NOVA Chemicals Corporation, Calgary, Alberta

Peter Frise – Scientific Director and CEO, Auto 21, Windsor, Ontario

Alexandre Jodoin – Materials and Structures Engineer, BMT Fleet Technology Limited, Manotick, Ontario

Jay Josefo – Lawyer, Toronto, Ontario

Raymond Leduc – Director and Senior Location Executive, IBM Bromont, Bromont, Québec

Margaret Lefebvre – Director, The Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs, Canadian Association of Income Funds, Montréal, Québec

Cecil H. Rorabeck – Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery (Emeritus), University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

Leo Steven – Chairman of the Board, PEI Health, Cardigan, Prince Edward Island

Iain Stewart – (Leave of absence – 14 October 2010 to 13 October 2011), Assistant Vice-President, Research, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Robert Warren – Executive Director – Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

David Wood – Head of Finance and Corporate Development, Secretary and Treasurer, Celator Pharmaceuticals Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia

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¹ Type is defined as follows: Previously committed to – committed to in the first or second fiscal year before the subject year of the report; Ongoing – committed to at least three fiscal years before the subject year of the report; and New – newly committed to in the reporting year of the DPR.

² NRC's S&T Economic Impacts and Return on Investment Study. NRC Strategy and Development Branch, 2011. Note that the results and methodology of the Study have undergone a review and validation process, including a validation of results by Statistics Canada. A formal international peer review of the methodology and results is now in process.

³ Ibid. The study did not allow for the collection of data on the number of products for clients and non-clients.

⁴ Ibid. The study did not allow for measurement of average incremental R&D expenditures of clients versus non-clients.

⁵ Ibid. The study did not allow for measurement of average incremental R&D employment of clients versus non-clients.

⁶ Commencing in the 2009-10 Estimates cycle, the resources for Program Activity: Internal Services are displayed separately from other program activities; they are no longer distributed among the remaining program activities, as was the case in previous Main Estimates. This has affected the comparability of spending and FTE information by program activity between fiscal years.

⁷ There were 22 respondents, representative of clients which whom NRC has had a sustained relationship over the past three years, within this Program Activity.

⁸ Statistics Canada

⁹ There were 12 respondents, representative of clients which whom NRC has had a sustained relationship over the past three years, within this Program Activity.

¹⁰ GBPS data, which is data included from 6 separate databases including LEAP, RDCI, Business Registry as well as Export and Import Registries. Reported in NRC's S&T Economic Impacts and Return on Investment Study, NRC Strategy and Development Branch, 2011.

¹¹ There were 29 respondents, representative of clients which whom NRC has had a sustained relationship over the past three years, within this Program Activity.

¹² There were 33 respondents, representative of clients which whom NRC has had a sustained relationship over the past three years, within this Program Activity.

¹³ Those consulted were limited to clients of SA 2.1.4 (Canadian Neutron Beam Centre). Users of astronomical observatories will be surveyed separately in an evaluation to be completed in 2011-12. Note that NRC does not count users of TRIUMF facilities.

¹⁴ Health Canada uses the following shared library services: Acquisitions and Licensing, Cataloguing, Catalogue Integration, Web Site Hosting, Information Delivery, Help. The Public Health Agency of Canada uses the Acquisitions and Licensing service.

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