Industry committee  I think it is an important one. It's a big variable.

Industry committee  Let me answer that from two points. Given the economic turmoil that's currently playing havoc in the world, Canada's rank and its strengths show it is a good place to invest and is a safe place to come and build your operation. By the same token, there are a couple of other sta

Industry committee  I'll answer your question first. To answer your first question, on whether a patent is used as a competitive advantage, it doesn't exist in isolation. It's part of the broader issues on the table. Most countries are larger than Canada in terms of market size, so in terms of attr

Industry committee  Could you repeat that?

Industry committee  We did submit specific to SR and ED.

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. I think CIPO did submit in their documentation that one of the issues they're facing is outreach and getting to the community with the information they have. There are multiple organizations around the country, and a lot of them are of a national nat

Industry committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, honourable members. My name is Karna Gupta. I'm the president and CEO of ITAC, and I'm very pleased to be here on this intellectual property regime discussion. I have a personal interest because in a prior life I led Certicom, as their CEO, a small publi

Human Resources committee  Maybe I'll answer the question on a slightly different slant. I know about the program you're talking about in CEGEP on Bombardier. It is important to have those things largely because the technology sector tends to grow by clusters. There's no such thing as a national cluster.

Human Resources committee  It is extremely critical that we pay attention to what I would label as top talent. The technology workforce is highly mobile and the separation of economics between a developing country and a developed country is slowly disappearing for that class of people. They can migrate jus

Human Resources committee  As well, 40% of our graduating class is not indigenous to Canada. They're foreign students. Current policy has seen a lot of them in fact go back after. The issue is how to create a model where a lot of them will stay here for four or five years, work, and contribute towards the

Human Resources committee  I will make a comment on where technology's going in terms of what we hear, so that you have the same sense of what we're hearing from our members. There are three things that come to the table all the time when we talk technology now. One is that everything is mobile, includin

Human Resources committee  I have the same comment. When I speak to the industry, to RIM and others, the input is that they all would like to see some sort of a program delivered whereby they can go out, get students in, and get some credit for bringing them in, either for the summer term or for two terms,

Human Resources committee  I'll answer the first part of the question in terms of where the shortages are. The major one we hear, when I poll several of our members, is in the area of business analysts with a technical skill. So we have raw technical skills with no business analytics attached to them as to

Human Resources committee  On the educational side, the expansion of co-op programs or similar programs is important. A big part is that the student needs to go to university, then go to work, and then come back. Often what happens is that a big part of our cohorts who are not in co-op programs go through

Human Resources committee  In terms of outsourcing, most of the jobs that you're talking about are what we call "code cutters"—very low-level jobs that, purely on an economic basis, will go where the economies are better. In terms of the talent jobs you're talking about, we need to start looking at talent