Industry committee  I appreciate that, Mr. Chairman. Let me make a bit of a preamble comment as a follow-on to Alan Scott's comments. It's virtually certain, I think, that the oil sands will be producing three million barrels a day within the next decade or so. In Beijing last week, one of the eco

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Industry committee  Just quickly, there are actually a number of issues that emerge. The first one is actually that IP, whether you're fighting China or anybody else, is a real issue. Everybody today is reverse-engineering. If you actually patent, you in a sense give them a step up to do that, becau

Industry committee  I almost hate to be a lead on this one, but your comment about Oshawa is interesting. I happen to be the chair of something called AUTO21, which is the national centre of excellence for R and D in the automotive sector. So we've been very concerned about these. But we also do bus

Industry committee  The I-CAN group of partners brings basically a special, unique infrastructure that is very large-scale, very industrially oriented, quite unique, and not duplicated elsewhere in the country. The challenge is that it isn't recognized as a national resource; it tends to be recogniz

Industry committee  I won't pretend to be a tax expert. But I certainly see that the biggest need is for people to be able to move quickly and nimbly. If we're moving quickly and moving innovation into the market faster, then a two-year window is certainly going to be helpful. One of the things we s

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to be here. I'm the CEO of the Alberta Research Council, as was mentioned, and also the chair of an organization just launched called Innoventures Canada, which is bringing together research and technology organizations that