Transport committee  It's difficult to say one sort of thing. Certainly a dialogue with the industry, but as I said before—and Rénald certainly has alluded to it—innovation doesn't come in and of itself. There's a push and pull with innovation.

Transport committee  In terms of interdepartmental or provincial versus federal to really take a look at that, even in terms of a historical perspective, it's really difficult to say there's one silver bullet that's going to do—

Transport committee  It think support in sustaining that continuity; I think creating an environment, as I said, that sustains that continuity.

Transport committee  The other thing is that in any innovation, it's that pull-push. It has to be a perfect storm. If you take the jetliner, the Korean War comes along and it doesn't have the market that it needs. But you take the regional jet.... Before the regional jet, de Havilland U.K. tried the

Transport committee  Yes, as I said earlier, it is extremely important. If you consider Bombardier's production line alone, the company will need 500 engineers for the CSeries. So it is crucial. That request is not coming from anywhere. We need to have a supply chain that will accommodate these indus

Transport committee  If I could speak to that, when I spoke earlier, I talked about a holistic environment. It's really important to understand that these things don't sort of—well, they do sprout out of the ground. Most of them are made out of wood, but that's another part. The industry, itself, do

Transport committee  Again, both of us are better with things with wings, but in terms of the fuel that goes in, I know that Porter and Bombardier had one of their Q400 aircraft fly from Toronto to Ottawa with one of the engines just on biofuel. It was the first time they had flown on a commercial li

Transport committee  Again, much of the industry is consumer-driven, certainly in terms of transportation infrastructure. We were just discussing the other day some of the new designs they're coming out with. They are basically a solid wing, so that the passenger would be embedded in the wing. You

Transport committee  Thank you very much. Mr. Chair, members of the committee and parliamentary secretary, on behalf of our board of trustees and its chair, Gary Polonsky, as well as our president and CEO, Denise Amyot, I would like to thank you for your invitation and the opportunity to present our