Science and Research committee  I'm happy to start, and again, I'll turn to my colleague for the specific role that CPO plays. One of the goals of the national intellectual property strategy was actually to increase the overall level of awareness and education across the entirety of the innovation ecosystem.

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm pleased to join you today from the Algonquin Anishinabe peoples' unceded and unsurrendered territory. My name is Mark Schaan. I'm the senior assistant deputy minister of strategy and innovation policy at Innovation, Science and Economic Development C

Industry committee  I don't have anything at the ready in terms of percentages. I would just note, though, a couple of important efforts in this space that I think are worth noting. One is that, through the national intellectual property strategy that was first unveiled in 2018 but then subsequent

Industry committee  —for commercialization purposes with a tool to be able to try to understand its access and its current relevance to your goal.

Industry committee  I think it's important to note the improvements and increase in Canada's telecommunications policies. The government has added many aspects to this program in recent years. That includes not only the continuation of set-asides and some of the more stringent build-out conditions

Industry committee  The government's telecommunications policy is guided by three core policy objectives, with competition as the underlying principle. Those are quality, coverage and price. In particular, the belief is that Canadians should benefit from services that are fast enough to support mode

Finance committee  It would be conjecture on my part. I think a consideration for the committee is, on the one hand, a mandatory requirement from creditors to ensure they still get paid. The pressure that comes from that is one kind of intended outcome of the bill. The other is that the company n

Finance committee  If that company enters into either a restructuring or an insolvency policy, regardless of whether it's federally or provincially regulated, it will be subject to the rules of Bill C-228. It all comes from insolvency.

Finance committee  I don't have those that would be under the BIA, but, by and large, most of them would have occurred under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. From 2009 to 2022, there were 10 restructurings that resulted in pension reductions.

Finance committee  It was roughly 50,000 pensioners.

Finance committee  Yes, go ahead.

Finance committee  The coming into force transition clause that's more typical to insolvency law affects only proceedings that start after the coming into force date, to ensure that rules don't change in the middle of an ongoing insolvency proceeding. What the current private member's bill does is

Finance committee  What I'm indicating is that traditional transition clauses in insolvency policy would say that any insolvency proceedings that go from this point forward would be subject to these rules. From the coming into force date, any new proceeding would be subject to the provisions as the

Finance committee  I raised two different sets of issues and I'll speak to them. One set of issues is about how it's drafted. Right now, regardless of whether it's three years or five years, it's set on the basis of a calendar year, as opposed to tying it back to the insolvency date. Right now, up

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. From 2009 to 2022, there were approximately 10 cases where the pension had been reduced due to insolvency. These are under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act proceedings. Bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings would be a different manner. I can