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International Trade committee Isn't that a nice business story?
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee Which industries?
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee The Canadian airport infrastructure has made leaps and bounds over the last 20 years. There's a lot to commend in our deregulated system. I mean, you could eat off the floor in some of our Canadian airports. They're absolutely pristine. They're just beautiful and make a fantastic
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee Let me make the distinction clear: our small, not-for-profit business, which employs about 12 people, represents 150 CEOs whose companies are responsible for that $850 billion in revenue and $6 trillion in assets.
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee The CEOs themselves are our members.
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee John Manley is our CEO and president of the board.
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee Let me tell you the good news story. The good news story is that the—
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee Yes, absolutely. The good news is that the Canadian economy of course does continue to grow and, I would note, is redistributing that value across the Canadian economy and Canadian society with absolute numbers of average incomes rising steadily and with our quality of life. Un
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee The more the merrier.
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee I would say an unequivocal yes and the business environment in Canada has consistently over decades been rated among the best in the world. That relates to some fundamental factors that have been very stable. Those are: the rule of law; an excellent public service that has incr
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee Unfortunately, I don't know why the federal government has not given its approval. I am not familiar with that process. However, I have to say that infrastructure is economically important for airports. It's not very complicated. The entire business community should participate i
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Dr. Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee Sure. Let me give you an example. Canada has an air transport agreement with India, which is a really exciting emerging market. But exactly to your point, the capacity is not fully being used. There is only a once-a-day direct service by jetBlue through Toronto. We'd like to se
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee Absolutely, it has given them more assurances. There have been many myths around that FIPA. It is more than China had ever offered to any other country. It doesn't map perfectly onto our FIPA agreements with other, what I would call perfectly commercial markets, but it is still a
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee Jay, you take that. It's Buy America.
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell
International Trade committee Yes, we have. I would commend the department of trade for the outreach both on GMAP and between trade and transport departments. The outreach on the air transit agreements has also been excellent.
February 18th, 2015Committee meeting
Ailish Campbell