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Finance committee I think it's extremely important. In my mind, research is transforming money into knowledge. Innovation is taking knowledge and creating something of greater value. The issue is, what solution does business need that they can apply the knowledge to? How can we build more collabor
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee We have not seen any consequences as a result of the discussion that is going on. We're under tremendous competitive pressure to attract and retain investment and keep product mandates. Companies are making these decisions all the time. I think we have to give credit to what all
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee If I could say, having it publicized internationally is not helpful in making the pitch to retain or attract investment. I guess, though, at the end of the day the decision is above all a decision that makes economic sense for the company and is made, to some extent, on tax rates
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee We have. First of all, we're dealing with issues in manufacturing that are far too important and urgent to have arguments between jurisdictions when we should be looking at providing solutions. We're been on the record for some time saying there are two major tax issues that we
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee I'm meeting with the Deputy Minister of Finance on Friday.
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee Perhaps I could go first. This time last year the Canadian dollar was at 84¢. I think when those hearings took place it was probably close to $1.10. Nobody could have foreseen that, and that rapid surge in the dollar has overwhelmed most companies. Most exporters will be in a los
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee Our response to the budget was certainly aggressive. It was maybe a little angry, but it was a reflection of some of the disappointment and frustration that—
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee No, I think the strategy that you set out is correct. Our point of view in saying that this was “Disadvantage Canada” was just to say that not making these crucial investments puts Canadian companies at a global disadvantage.
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee Our assessment of the budget was that the tax measures in this budget and the investments weren't adequate to meet either the challenge or the urgency of the situation.
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee If you look at last year when the government introduced the two-year writeoff and looked at the fiscal cost that it estimated, it was estimating that somewhere around one-quarter of the investment would be covered by the two-year writeoff. I think there was perhaps some indicatio
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee In the budget the government did two things around the R and D tax credit system. It committed to improving the administration of the system, which is extremely important. We'll see how that works out, because that's been in the works for some time.
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee In terms of the additional allowances, there was an increase in the allowance for small Canadian-owned companies to take advantage of the credit. I think the estimated benefit is around $70 million over a period of two years. What we were looking at was to make the tax credit re
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee I agree with what Mr. Lazar has just said. Continually extending it by one year doesn't give you that much additional certainty for planning your investments. For many companies, apart from those companies that were probably going to make investments anyway in off-the-shelf techn
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee That's excellent. We have about 900 companies from across the country coming out to do business in Alberta. When you look at the issue of interprovincial trade, I think it's a good case study of what we have to do to remove some of these cross-border issues. Some companies can
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers
Finance committee That's a good question. I hope you're going out in March and you'll be participating in our national buyer-seller forum.
March 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Dr. Jayson Myers