Government Operations committee  Well, you're talking to somebody whose company is called inRound Innovations. I'll tell you what really drives innovation, from our perspective: it's access to opportunities. I suppose to a certain degree we believe that the government has a certain socio-economic responsibil

Government Operations committee  I don't have any direct experience. I will say that our members have pretty much the same experience as what I hear from Mr. Rivenell. I will reiterate that I think more money should be spent on promoting the interest in SMEs in all branches of government.

Government Operations committee  I don't have any specific experience with them.

Government Operations committee  As we've always said, we believe that shared services...and as an example, which could be a very large project--or they could break it down into more of a distributed model--we think small business can provide and does provide niche services. Certainly, in my company we hone thos

Government Operations committee  Were you around last year for GENS? That was the last time I gave testimony at this committee. That was a specific attempt to push out small and medium-sized enterprises, to give what started out as one large contract but turned into two large contracts. Their answer was to provi

Government Operations committee  I agree with the target. I can't speak much on the topic other than as a small company that has benefited from SR and ED. It certainly was beneficial to us. It promoted the development of products that we think are beneficial to society, for that matter, and we commend the new

Government Operations committee  It is just that if the bar is set too high, we won't have an opportunity to bid, and we are seeing that more and more. Again, I refer back to the lobbying effort to convince senior bureaucrats that it's better to go with one throat to choke than it is to have a distributed model,

Government Operations committee  From CABiNET's perspective, I think the vast majority of our members have a lot of experience in selling to the federal government, our issues haven't been, until this point, what we feel OSME's mandate has been: to attract new companies and teach them. I, too, remember trying

Government Operations committee  I'll answer that. Certainly, I think, the larger the organization, the better the opportunities they have in the federal government. I've always kind of chuckled at the definition, because 500 employees is a fairly sizable organization, in my opinion. It's certainly a lot bigger

Government Operations committee  Clearly, I think, the larger the company, the more opportunity they have. I mentioned specifically in my remarks that the large companies employ lobbyists who have a tremendous amount of influence in government and among senior bureaucrats. The more revenues you bring into your c

Government Operations committee  We have a two-part speech. It was designed for me to start, if you don't mind, Mr. Chair.

Government Operations committee  Good afternoon. My name is Jeff Lynt.

Government Operations committee  Thank you again, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon. My name is Jeff Lynt. I'm the past president of the Canadian Business Information Technology Network, also called CABiNET. With me is Cathy McCallion, also a fellow CABiNET board member. Our CABiNET may be slightly less influential t