Industry committee  I was going to say it's definitely less than 10%. In sectors like the CIC, where you bring them in, they bridge that D component to make it a lot easier for us to work and collaborate with the university partners, with industry. So that's a way of bridging that D, but it's defini

Industry committee  My earlier comment was to definitely make a portion or all of it--as much as we can--refundable, because that truly will promote more of the bigger R and development in our industries, which we need to do. We're still evolving and developing in industry. It's not like rolling t

Industry committee  I'm going to start off by saying—we're on a smaller scale, and I will let Willy and Peter answer—that even in a small- or medium-scale company like Magellan, we absolutely have to have the emerging markets as part of our elements and strategy. But it's not necessary to displace w

Industry committee  I would add that there were some initiatives, and I know some of them got lost, but the Manitoba Aerospace Human Resources Coordinating Committee—long name—has been working very hard with provincial and also federal counterparts. I have always said the Canadian government should

Industry committee  I was going to add to that. Remember, we're talking about military procurements here. We, Canadian industry, compete in all commercial aerospace and other activities that we are in on a global playing field, so I concur that there needs to be healthy competition in order to drive

Industry committee  It's an interesting comment, and if I had the solution to that one, I'm sure we'd be applying it across a few industries. I'm still a very strong believer in programs--I'm going to use the word again--like the IRBs. However, yes, it could be on a more national scale. There are

Industry committee  Where else are you going to invest? In our people, and getting people up to that level of continual improvement, the technologies, the engineering, and making sure we're leaders and being the best we can be in those fields. I see education and training funding and development as

Industry committee  If I could just touch on the second comment, I know there's little time here, but it is about R and D, and you mentioned things like free trade or other areas, and how we can open that up. I do know there has been a shift over time away from funding agencies like DREV and DRES,

Industry committee  I was going to answer that as well. We have somewhat of a model here. I am also the president of the Manitoba Aerospace Association. When you look across the board, it's true that we really are partners here, because we sit at the same table. Willy is a board member, and so is St

Industry committee  I will comment. A good point is that we know the WD policy had changed over the last four or five years, and previously there was more direct investment by WD. I actually sat on a panel--it was two years ago now--when they talked about what were some of the structures we could do

Industry committee  I admit this is one of the biggest challenges. How do you go ahead with either some strategic procurements or direct procurements in some of these technologies? I'm a proponent of going ahead with some of these strategic purchases and having the IRBs. I think the example here was

Industry committee  CCC is the Canadian Commercial Corporation.

Industry committee  Thank you. I just want to add a couple of comments based on what I mentioned this morning on the efficacy I see in our partnership. The aerospace sector operates within a high-technology sector in Canada and we do compete globally. We at Magellan Aerospace design, engineer, an

Industry committee  I have a few words to say.