Industry committee  Usually, other countries have their own aircraft. In Canada, we have a very small defence market. As a result, we are forced to buy our aircraft, our trucks and all our military equipment elsewhere. So, if we compare ourselves to other countries that make their own aircraft or ta

Industry committee  Do you mean something like a fast track for aerospace?

Industry committee  By giving Canadian businesses only the so-called leftovers, or the minor work, Canada will lose the capacity to do maintenance. I do not think that the federal government can let Canada lose this capacity. What I am saying is true. There are not a lot of companies. They are very

Industry committee  Let me give you an example. We mentioned the Valley of Death just now and we are talking about the importance of developing technology demonstration programs. That is very common in other countries where they have tech demo development programs, 50% of which are funded by the gov

Industry committee  The federal and provincial governments really need to get involved to see what is going to work best.

Industry committee  As we said earlier, developing intellectual property is extremely important, given the globalization of the industry. In that context, our companies have to send lower value-added work abroad. Sometimes, we have to make sacrifices and concessions to keep the development of intell

Industry committee  I believe that the SADI people are aware of the problem and that, on occasion, they have managed to make adjustments that enabled our companies to do it. Then again, if there is a change in management, sometimes the new person does not know what is going on. In that light, the fi

Industry committee  Yes, somebody said in one of our working groups that negotiation of IP clauses between partners often takes months, and the situation is normally worse when universities are involved. IP has no value until it's commercialized. The model that Ms. Mazurkewich referred to is a CRIAQ

Industry committee  First, one of the advantages of this type of model is that it allows our industries and universities to cooperate from the outset. In addition, that helps our industry to work with partners abroad, partners who have those types of tools and are able to cooperate. There are models

Industry committee  The CRIAQ, or the Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Québec, is a Quebec program. So the provincial government funded the program, but it is still a program that many of our businesses across Canada are using. As part of the review of the industry that we are

Industry committee  Well, IP is definitely becoming a pivotal issue for the growth of the Canadian aerospace industry, and I will speak to two aspects of that. One of them is under the commercial funding agreements of programs such as SADI, and the other is with respect to government procurement. T