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Industry committee  Madam Chair, I would say that the superclusters, under the—

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  I apologize, but did you wish to have an answer, sir? I just—

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  What I would say with regard to the superclusters is that a condition of receiving the money was that there be transparency measures. The members of the superclusters are a matter of public record. The investments they make are a matter of public record; they have to actually dis

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  Thank you for your question. Let me start by saying that Internet access for all Canadians, including those in rural regions, is one of our top priorities. In the past, we implemented a number of programs to expand Internet access in rural regions. Connect to innovate is one ex

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  Thank you for your question. The final parameters have not yet been announced. It's not up to me, as a civil servant, to say exactly how things will work, but I do want to assure you that we are very sensitive to the fact that different communities and rural areas have very diff

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  I'll have to let the minister give an answer about the government's exact measures, but I can say that we've invested $1 billion in connecting Canadians, and there are other funds as well. The CRTC—

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  —made available to the institutions.

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  I can come back to the committee with that information

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  The best way to describe it would be to say that the Innovation portal is primarily accessed digitally. As the honourable member noted, you go online, you indicate what kind of business you're in, which province or territory you're in, and so on. As you go through it, when you ge

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  Generally speaking, clean technology is a priority across our programming. The online service is part of the broader service offering. We have innovation advisers all across the country and we have the ability in various regions across the country to direct businesses to talk to

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  Madam Chair, the chief financial officer could illuminate this specific item in the estimates, if that's of interest to the member or to the committee.

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  Madam Chair, to address the member's question, I would include this in a return to the committee. We certainly can look at what kind of response we could provide on the issue of internal trade and the work we've been doing.

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  Madam Chair, I would have to come back on that as well. For the honourable member's benefit, we've been doing a lot of work on regulatory reform on a number of fronts. I would want to make sure that I'm answering the right one, because we are doing quite a bit of work on the regu

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  Madam Chair, again I would probably come back, as part of my response to the committee generally, on that question.

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy

Industry committee  Madam Chair, let me just indicate that there is obviously a lot of work going on in the ISED portfolio across many fronts. I am happy to take back requests on very specific questions about documents that may have been prepared and come back to the committee.

February 27th, 2020Committee meeting

Simon Kennedy