Industry committee  I don't see why industry associations cannot do that for themselves and for their members online or consumer groups that may be interested in steering interested parties toward Canadian products. I think it's also important to ensure there's sufficient competition to keep Canadia

Industry committee  Without economies of scale, it is difficult to have the reach, the strength, the innovation.... That is one aspect of the issue.

Industry committee  I think it's difficult to look to the government to become the advertising agency for all things Canadian, outside of Canadian cultural content, which is treated differently. Part of the challenge is trying to find out where the electronic world really differs from the physical w

Industry committee  This is an answer that is best shared between us because you can see that the concentration or that integration offers consumers more choice. It is often a question of scale.

Industry committee  But prices are currently going down.

Industry committee  That is what happened after more competition was introduced. It is the same thing for small companies and consumers. That is why the government made the decision to bring in more competition in order to bring down prices.

Industry committee  In terms of the international positioning, we are a little hampered by the delay in our data, and if we compare 2007 in Canada to 2010 or 2011 in another country, we're going to look a little backward. So I'm glad that Forbes has declared us a good place to do business, but in te

Industry committee  In the newspaper reports about Shared Services Canada, where there's a consolidation of the IT spend of the government, I'm reading that this is a way to improve the smartness of the spend and perhaps improve the cost-effectiveness of that spend rather than have duplicative data

Industry committee  My experience is going to be much better with the ICT industries, since that is part of my portfolio, rather than autos or airlines. Aside from the general economic downturn, there has been a gradual diminution of manufacturing in Canada, because there are offshore, lower-cost co

Industry committee  I spend most of my life on my BlackBerry when I'm not in meetings. I can't really say how much of our purchasing of supplies is done online with delivery later. I am unaware of that. A lot of our transactions with our colleagues and clients are done through e-mail or website post

Industry committee  That's a Treasury Board Secretariat responsibility within the new Shared Services Canada, I presume. Treasury Board also has a service sector that promotes good delivery of services and cost efficiency. Therefore, they are presumably also promoting electronic means where it makes

Industry committee  I'm going to ask Janet to talk a bit about that, but just generally, the more we can take down the concerns over security or the concerns over the cost of spam to the small business owner...that's one of the things we're trying to accomplish beyond protecting Canadians.

Industry committee  Instead of the two programs I mentioned, that of the BDC and of the NRC, it might be better for government or for the public sector to deliver services in order to encourage clients to do business online.

Industry committee  The G-7 is a little more difficult because the data is not always comparable. I think the adoption statistic I used in my opening remarks was that Canadian businesses are investing, per worker, 60% of what the U.S. is doing. That is a gap that has maintained itself, if not incr

Industry committee  Yes. When we were consulting on the digital economy strategy, there was a very thoughtful think piece put in by the Council of Canadian Academies. They focused on the adoption question, and they felt it was essentially causally related. It doesn't explain all of the productivit