Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  If I gave you that impression, I'm very happy to have the chance to correct it. We don't want to be given preference because we're a Canadian company. We want Canada to choose the best in the world, and if we're considered the best in the world for all of the U.S. forces—the Mari

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  We're just asking to be fair. The way we're organized right now, the only place where I would say we have employees who could do a job in Montreal would be our 200 engineers who we have based in India, because when you have a training centre in Dubai you need simulators to train

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  I think CAE stands for “agreeing”, when you think about it. It wasn't meant to be at the beginning, but it turned out to be. CAE was born in 1947, and as I said, it was a former Royal Air Force pilot who wanted to do something innovative and technology-challenging. So we started

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  I'm outraged when I think about this Chinese girl who came here at the age of six months, and who does not even speak a word of Chinese today. Her name is Francine Lajeunesse. She has been told that she cannot work on certain issues because she is a threat to the nation. The poor

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  Perhaps you are more familiar with the program details than I, but I had understood that a company that was incorporated in Canada—Pratt & Whitney Canada is a good example, I believe—is as entitled to tax credits as a company such as CAE or Bombardier, which has its headquart

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  Yes. It was actually at the end of November 2005.

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  I'll be glad to do that. Yes, we're very proud. We announced, with Minister Clement, on March 31, that CAE was going to invest $714 million for the next five years and that the Government of Canada, through the SADI program, was going to support us--they don't want to use the te

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  Thank you, Mr. Garneau. Yes, you are correct. A coalition was created in that area a few years ago. It included people from the forestry sector, information technologies, the pharmaceutical industry and the aerospace industry. This coalition was easy to put together. People heard

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  I totally agree. I will add two more. One is innovation. Without innovation, our industry is going nowhere. This is a business in which you have to dream and have to come up with new solutions, either for us to better train people, or for Pratt & Whitney to have engines that

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  I agree with regard to the aerospace caucus. We are all extremely pleased. We really like the members of this caucus and we know that they are knowledgeable about this sector. We have been monitoring these issues together for a long time, Mr. Bachand. I would like to briefly tal

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  I concur with Mr. Lajeunesse, when he says that we seem to be surviving just fine today. As you know, life is fragile. Twenty-five or even 10 years ago, who would have believed that we would now be having to help the Ontario auto industry? Who would have believed that we wouldn't

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  I'd be glad to answer that. As you know, Mr. Garneau, CAE's revenues are half civil and half military. We definitely are very interested in military procurement around the world. But as we found out in the past.... There's a French expression that “Nul n'est pas prophète dans so

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. On behalf of the CAE, I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you today and to present to you our opinion of the challenges facing the aeronautics sector given the current global economic crisis. Like a number of other companies, we