International Trade committee  Do you want me to explain with an example? I think I—

International Trade committee  I could start with the skills gap, and I'll just talk very particularly to the shipbuilding initiative. Dalhousie worked very hard with the Irving company to put forward what was called the value proposition for that contract, in which the company had to describe what having that

International Trade committee  Well, there you go.

International Trade committee  I don't know that for sure, but what I do know is that the Centre for European Studies, or the European Union centre, does have people who look at these aspects, and this agreement is, as I said, one of its themes for focus and concentration. I am going to suggest that there will

International Trade committee  I believe there are two, yes, who were hoping to be here yesterday afternoon and couldn't for reasons of conflict of time.

International Trade committee  No, I don't have any information outside of that.

International Trade committee  I have kind of a lived experience that people reported to me.

International Trade committee  We haven't done that study, but actually coming here raised the issue to both me and the president that this was the kind of study we need to do. We need to understand more clearly exactly what any implications of that would be.

International Trade committee  Well, it needs to cure it. I'm not sure that it's done it strongly enough. It's the feeling I got from the scientists, who feel that their inventions are so difficult to patent in Europe, although they would be very usefully patented in Europe. Without having the expertise to sa

International Trade committee  I have a comment that I can make, based on my own past as a speech pathologist, which is that our own provinces in this country had a lot of trouble with this about 30 years ago, but they managed to sit down, discuss it, and sort it out. I believe that we've done similar things w

International Trade committee  Dalhousie University is approaching its 200th anniversary. I thought you would want to know that. The universities are old on this side of Canada.

International Trade committee  Right, that's before Canada. It's situated in what I think is a very vibrant gateway community to the Atlantic rim. I'm leaving tonight for Berlin, and on the PowerPoint that I was preparing somebody had written “northwest Atlantic”. He was talking from the German perspective

Status of Women committee   that an income-splitting program would cost, not least on a federal child care program, which would itself yield great rewards, as I've said before, for our economy and for families across the country. My colleague, David Macdonald, has written extensively and done the economic analysis

Human Resources committee  Dr. King from Queen's University led a double-cohort study in Ontario that produced four different reports. His work showed that colleges like Algonquin were always focused on recruiting students in grades 10, 11, and 12. What became clear from Dr. King's studies

Natural Resources committee   on the arts and crafts side. We also have the benefit of four settled claims that have significant amounts of money to invest with the Inuvialuit, Gwich'in, Sahtu, and Tlicho. As Dr. MacDonald could probably attest to, the Tlicho have had as well very good impact-benefit agreements