4. The Company’s mission is to contribute, in collaboration with the representatives of the regions and the aboriginal nations concerned as well as the private sector, to the integrated and coherent development of the area covered by the Northern Plan, in keeping with the principle of sustainable development and in accordance with the Government’s policy directions relating to the Northern Plan.
This mission is based, in particular, on the declaration signed by the Northern Plan partners on 9 May 2011. The Company must make the declaration available on its website.
The area covered by the Northern Plan includes all of Québec located north of the 49th degree of north latitude and north of the St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.