Grants and Contributions:
Held annually in Toronto, PDAC is the premier mineral exploration and mining convention, with over 1,100 exhibitors, 700 speakers, and 30,000 attendees from 135 countries. The project supports the continuation of the CanNor initiative, which was successfully organized by the NPMO team for the last three PDAC conferences. CanNor, territorial governments, Indigenous development corporations, and the industry will continue to jointly promote northern projects to the global investment community. The Chamber will conduct outreach, book exhibitor spaces, coordinate northern participation, and promote the Northern Pavilion.
Inclusive Diversification and Economic Advancement in the North (IDEANorth) makes foundational investments in economic infrastructure, sector development and capacity building to help position Northerners in the territories to take advantage of Canada's innovation economy. The IDEANorth program focuses on four priority areas: economic growth and sector development; business scale-up, productivity and innovation; small-scale economic infrastructure development; and foundational economic infrastructure.