International Trade committee  We look at innovation as being two parts. In the products that we're designing, we try to solve market issues, for instance, fuel efficiency and lower emissions. We're redesigning products to try to reduce emissions and provide fuel economy. That brings our customers back because

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

International Trade committee  I do believe strongly that if we don't ratify the TPP, Canada will become irrelevant on a global stage. We don't want to be there. We want to be relevant. We want to be on the global stage. We want to be part of what's going on in terms of global trade and the global economy, and

International Trade committee  There's no chance of that happening. You achieve efficiency by scale. The bigger the line, the higher the volume; the more efficient that you are, the lower you can drive your costs and the more that you can drive improvement. The concept of somebody setting up something to serve

International Trade committee  We have 23 plants in Ontario.

International Trade committee  All of our facilities in Canada are in Ontario.

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  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  It will be 50 years this year.

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

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  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

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

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 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