Industry committee  Manufacturing in Canada makes a lot of sense, for one thing because we have such a bounty of natural resources. We have wood, iron ore—all the things that make it right. For us not to be in those transformational businesses, where we take a lump of coal and turn it into coke, tur

Industry committee  It took me two hours to get here from Hamilton--40 kilometres. In my day, I could have run it if I were a long-distance runner.

Industry committee  Sure.

Industry committee  Bring in half a million people a year, and we'll go out and recruit them. Someone is going to say, oh my God, we're already bringing in 225,000 people; that's half a million people. It's in my dissertation here. Between now and the year 2050, half the world's population growth is

Industry committee  Right. They're doing it to our people and we're subsidizing.

Industry committee  It's really simple. Again, it's all about wanting to grow it here, but there's a penalty if you're going to be one of the sunset industries that go away. If you giveth, therefore you can taketh away. Maybe speaking on the educational side here, the other thing we're seeing is t

Industry committee  Yes, we capitalists are hard that way. But I would also say there's another side to it, and we would hire people. From our side, the process or the mechanism isn't easy to do. It's very difficult to put a high school student into, let's say, a machine shop or things like that, wi

Industry committee  The currency thing is a very interesting question. I met with David Dodge and six other people about this thing. Basically Canada has a tier-two currency in that we follow other things. We're not the master. We can't control the U.S. currency or the yuan. What I'm referring to

Industry committee  I think that Mr. Dodge's approach is correct in controlling inflation and that we don't have much influence on the value of the Canadian dollar, but I think we can lend our voice to the other countries to say that the Chinese currency has to float; it has to reflect the true valu

Industry committee  Speaking to Mr. Church's point, we're involved and lean and going down that path. I think really just having a broader understanding, certainly for smaller companies, of terms like “global supply chain” and all this other stuff and understanding how those mechanisms work is just

Industry committee  Okay. That's essential. If it's a large company, we service them. That's how that works. The other thing we have to look at is really our tax regime. When you combine or compare the tax rates of our capital tax as well as our business tax, Canada is second worst. Only China is

Industry committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity to speak. I put together a ten-page document, and in the interest of brevity I will skip to what I call my top ten. When I was asked to talk here, it was about how small to medium-sized enterprises in manufacturing companies li