Status of Women committee  Perfect. My name is Linda Hasenfratz. I am CEO of Linamar Corporation, and I'm very pleased to have been given the opportunity to speak to the committee this afternoon. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, we are a diverse manufacturing company. We do a lot of busine

Status of Women committee  Yes, I do. Can you hear me?

Status of Women committee  I would definitely try to focus that money on awareness and generating interest in young women in the areas of science, trade, and technology, in these non-traditional industries where we still don't have nearly the level of representation that we should. My company is not 50%

Status of Women committee  I think trying to create some awareness and a marketing campaign directed at girls to encourage them into these fields would be money very well spent, as well as trying to create a program across Canada engaging universities and colleges to try to work collaboratively to a broade

Status of Women committee  Yes, exactly. I think you're absolutely right: that's a good place to focus. We've worked quite a lot with Skills Canada. It's a great organization that tries to broadly encourage people into skills and technical areas. We have worked with them for our summer skills camp for youn

Status of Women committee  I said there were three things that drive prosperity: competitiveness, opportunity, and culture. If you look at a company, competitiveness is about having innovative products and processes and improving opportunities about your strategy and how you go about getting that business.

Status of Women committee  I wouldn't say there has been a dramatic increase at all. There are a few more young women in skilled trades than you would have seen 10 or 15 years ago, so a little movement is happening there. On the engineering side, I don't think there has been much change. We're still sittin

Status of Women committee  I completely agree: Role models are really important. That's why we should try to highlight the achievements of some of these women in these non-traditional fields, and show how they have been able to choose some very prominent positions and do so while balancing work and home li

International Trade committee  Good morning. It's a pleasure to be here. I'll start with a few quick words about Linamar. We're a diversified manufacturing company, primarily in the auto parts business. We also supply commercial vehicles, off-highway vehicles, energy markets, and access equipment under the br

International Trade committee  I believe an important area to our prosperity and global competitiveness as a country is free trade agreements. I think we've made great progress in Canada in trying to open Canada to the rest of the world, and to enhance that with free trade agreements with Europe and South Kore

International Trade committee  It's the scientific research and experimental development incentive, the R and D tax credit.

International Trade committee  It will be 50 years this year.

International Trade committee  Yes, we absolutely do. While 90% of what we make in Canada is shipped to the U.S., 35% of our overall business is actually outside North America. In Europe and in Asia, we do supply some products from North America, for instance, Skyjack. We do all our manufacturing here in Canad

International Trade committee  We're not going to ship to Japan from here, that's for sure, but we certainly supply the Japanese automakers in other locations. We supply Japanese automakers in the U.S. from our Canadian operations, for instance, and we do buy products from Japan, such as equipment to manufactu

International Trade committee  I haven't done a thorough study so that's a very difficult question for me to answer, but I will say that just because nobody's added up and calculated what that job creation would be, doesn't mean that they won't come. Somebody's gone to the trouble of calculating that there are