Finance committee  It would accelerate something we have never seen before. For example, if you have a university and a college talking about hybrid programming with an industry partner on site, imagine walking students on their first day of class into Bombardier's 4,000 employee facility to watch

Finance committee  I think it's make or break. If we do not expedite the opportunity for this hub to come together—

Finance committee  —now, then we're going to be looking in the mirror saying that we've missed out on this incredible opportunity. The opportunity is now.

Finance committee  The numbers speak for themselves. We're seeing many countries come to life. We know it's projected there will be a need for 35,000 new planes, which is a value of $4.8 trillion, between 2014 and 2032. We're in the perfect storm. You have the Asian market, I'll call it, emerging

Finance committee  The critical point is that we need to skill our youth to replenish this demand. One of the members of DAIR, Centennial College, simply listed an opportunity for potential positions of 60 seats for training just on assembly, and over 350 people showed up. It is this opportunity th

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, I would first like to thank you for this opportunity. I am here today representing DAIR, the Downsview Aerospace Innovation and Research consortium. The consortium represents four leading academic institutions along with nine industry leaders which have come together w