Industry committee  I'd agree, it's definitely less than 10%.

Industry committee  I would definitely concur with both of those statements. I think being refundable would be valuable, even with the caveat of it being reinvested back into R and D. The tracking is certainly a piece of work, and just the interpretation required.... I think it's an evolving body o

Industry committee  I wouldn't say we have a problem with it. As an organization, we make sure we always align with the original manufacturers and work in an authorized manner. The key point I really am trying to raise is for us to recognize that across the country it really does restrict how you

Industry committee  The perspective on this, from a turbine engine perspective or...there's another component. PMA, parts manufacturing approval, is a term in the United States. It's a process whereby you can create knock-off parts, if you will. They're authorized for installation. But we've seen it

Industry committee  From our direct experience, no, that is not what I would call a problem in the engines and the products we've seen.

Industry committee  I would say it's somewhat across the board. To combat that, we have to invest a lot, as an organization, to develop that skill level, whether it's at the technical level or at the engineering level. We've worked with our local universities and with partners of the panel here in

Industry committee  I was talking in generalities in terms of IP being a two-edged sword to a certain extent. I think from a national perspective that might be the case. If you look at some of the procurements and some of the obstacles, it's important to bundle that in terms of these long-term, life

Industry committee  Regarding the environmental aspects, I think maybe the government could consider the investments required to move to more sustainable processes. In some cases, these are quite considerable, and perhaps there could be some more creative ways to support them or incentives for those

Industry committee  Nothing comes immediately to mind to use as an example.

Industry committee  Many of our customers are foreign because that's where the activity is taking place. There are trade commissions. We endorse those types of things that go on that raise the profile. That type of activity might support more the Asian markets and so forth. That's probably the one m

Industry committee  In preparing for this talk, one of the observations I had as I was looking at some of the sites on Industry Canada and so forth was I recognized Precarn as being one organization that hasn't been on our radar screen particularly. They focus a lot on robotics and that type of deve

Industry committee  Sure. I would tend to support that. Certainly we could see where there would be advantages in that direct investment. We've seen where other companies in eastern Canada have definitely benefited from that and can really help to propel in terms of developing some technology and ca

Industry committee  Thank you very much. I thank the committee for giving Standard Aero the opportunity to come before you this afternoon and talk a little bit about some of our views on technology and the aerospace sector in particular. Just to give the committee a little background on Standard