The strategic planning framework's effectiveness is being increased by adopting additional best practices and better integrating corporate planning with other planning cycles, including a new integrated investment planning framework.

The objectives of our presentation today are to talk about some of our planning considerations; to touch on the demographics, the economic impacts, the social impacts, and the operational considerations that go into the levels exercise every year; to talk a little bit about immigration trends and what the numbers are telling us; to talk about where we're going in our immigration planning process and our desire to move to a multi-year planning framework; to give you a little bit of information on what we achieved in 1999; and then to talk about the year 2000 plan and where we're going.

A new human resources planning framework will be developed to address these challenges — one that is better aligned with the House’s corporate planning cycle and the business plans of the six service areas.

By bringing sea-related activities in different sectors together within a common planning framework, Maritime Spatial Planning can be used to prevent conflicts, maximise synergies, and ensure the efficient and sustainable use of scarce maritime space.

A stable planning framework providing legal certainty and predictability will promote investment in such sectors, which include offshore energy development, shipping and maritime transport, ports development, oil and gas exploitation and aquaculture, boosting Europe’s capacity to attract foreign investment.

It was partly as a result of government-imposed legislative requirements for communities in Alberta to come up with new, long-term planning frameworks to deal with growth management, as well as inter-municipal planning issues because the Province of Alberta had chosen to abandon the regional planning system.