Industry committee  We will allow up to five minutes for an opening presentation from each organization. We'll start with you, Mr. Fissel, and then we'll go to Dr. MacDonald and Mr. Tak, and then we'll go to questions from members. Okay.

University of Prince Edward Island  A number of honorary degrees were also awarded to outstanding members of the community. The recipients were the Hon. James Lee, former premier of the province, Colin MacDonald, the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Martha, John Joe Sark and Charles Stewart Scranton. Mr. Scranton also delivered the morning address while the afternoon address was delivered by Sister Lauretta White on behalf of the Sisters of St.

National Philanthropy Day Act  My own sister, Brigid, is an active member of AFP and is currently working as the campaign director at Mount Saint Vincent University. We are very proud of her and the great work she is doing with philanthropists like Dr. Martha Jodrey. The bill seeks to encourage Canadians to give time, money and knowledge to help build up our communities and civic society. National Philanthropic Day would recognize the hundreds of thousands of grassroot, non-partisan groups that give much to communities to strengthen the social cohesion in Canada.

Business of Supply  The biggest investment was with Genome Canada when we brought back a young Simon Fraser University graduate named Dr. Marco Marra who was at Johns Hopkins. He was the foremost mouse imprinter in genomics in the world. He came back to head up genomics with a lot of people who admired his work and were working with him in the United States.

Industry committee  I've repeated this so often I could do it in my sleep. A government has three levers to encourage industry: procurement, fiddling around with the tax system, and granting, in that order of priority. I guess all of you know I was one of the founders of MacDonald Dettwiler, which had something to do with the design of Radarsat-2.

Budget Implementation Act, 2007  I have recited some of these before, so I will not spend a lot of time on this. Back home the premier of Nova Scotia, Rodney MacDonald, rather mildly rebuked the government. The premier had to say something and he acknowledged very quickly that the Atlantic accord had been betrayed. The accord had been worked on by his former colleague, Dr.

Industry committee  The institute is encouraged that the government has belatedly intervened in the proposed sale of the MacDonald Dettwiler Radarsat technology to an American firm, but it is struck by the government's apparent insensitivity to the vital importance of a nurturing economic and industrial environment in which to cultivate world leading science and technology.

Health committee  That was the exact case with Erbitux, and some of you may know it as the Martha Stewart drug. This drug was not launched in Canada because no price agreement could be reached. Access to effective treatment should not be a matter of patients' financial resources.

Brain Tumour Surveillance  This valuable data will be of great assistance to us, and our colleagues around the world in directing future research into treatments for these devastating diseases and ultimately finding a cure. This letter was signed by five doctors: Dr. Warren Mason, Dr. Barbara Ann Miller, Dr. Mary Elliott, Dr. Normand Laperriere, and Dr. Cynthia Menard. I am so grateful to them for taking the time to do this. Another letter came from Australia, from Denis Strangman, chair of the International Brain Tumour Alliance.

Industry committee  He's in there with all the bad guys.

Industry committee  I'm interested in your comments about the IRAP program and I want to ask about solar energy, but can we get some further feedback about why the pre-commercialization program was cancelled? You said, Dr. MacDonald, that IRAP is being ruined. You probably have a big answer to that, so if you want to give us--

Industry committee  I'm sorry, what was it you just asked?

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  I'm not quite sure what he meant. The small producer.... The utilities don't like distributed generation, but the future will have to be that way, so there's a lot of work to be done. When you interact with the grid, there has to be an interface so that when the solar is producing energy, it's feeding it into the grid or you're using it yourself.

Industry committee  Oh, yes, absolutely.