International Trade committee  We're absolutely in favour.

Transport committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair and honourable members. Thank you for the invitation to join you today to discuss Bill C-10 and the Air Canada Public Participation Act. We are pleased to be here to provide you with our perspective on how this legislation will support the growth and

Transport committee  That's the deal, Madam Chair.

Transport committee  The point we really want to make around the bill is that coming out of the bill is an opportunity for the C Series as well as for centres of excellence. For us, centres of excellence equate to jobs and to building Canadian capacity and innovation capability. I'm assuming that i

Transport committee  Certainly we have world-class capability here in Canada. I don't know the extent of that work, but we can either endeavour to find out for you or have one of the panellists find out for you. I'm very confident in our industry and its ability. We compete globally for this work. We

Transport committee  I don't know that I can answer that for you. I haven't been told that this is a fact. I have heard that there's a possibility that the C Series may be attached to it in some way. It's the same with the centres of excellence. The sale of the aircraft, and having major carriers suc

Transport committee  I'm not sure I understand.

Transport committee  I think you're adding to the diversity of the industry. We undertake to be global leaders in global sectors of the industry, and one of the things we pride ourselves on, one of the things we also say underneath that, is that we have to have diversity in the industry so that from

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, can I add a comment to Iain's comment?

Government Operations committee  When we're talking to government about program and policy development, we always try to say to them that small and medium-sized companies are different than large companies. Therefore, the Ts and Cs around programs and policy have to be different from what you would do for large

Government Operations committee  In aerospace, that's not really a big issue for us, because of the nature of the work and the salaries, that sort of thing. I'll go back to your earlier question, just to take a different look at it. One thing we try to encourage our members to do is to articulate, when they are

Government Operations committee  You could argue some of that. I'm just taking a different view on it that I think.... We are very encouraged by what we see in value propositions, because the government says, “Here is what we think our plan should be for this procurement. How are you going to respond to those t

Government Operations committee  I'll just add a comment to Iain's. We are now seeing a change from the IRB program to the ITB program in terms of behaviour of large companies. For example, the last two ITB announcements were large companies investing in small companies in very significant ways, tens of millions

Transport committee  I'll volunteer; how is that?

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good afternoon. On behalf of the members of the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada, thank you for including us in your study on the aircraft certification process. Aerospace stands as one of our country's proudest achievements, providing 21