Industry committee  It's a very good question. A lot of work is actually going on in this area. I was fortunate enough to come across, as part of the millennium goals, a program called Millennium@EDU. If you look into that, you'll find even within the developed countries like Spain and Portugal, the

Industry committee  On rural and remote, I think it does need a national investment strategy. I think if you look at most of our large infrastructure carriers in the country, whether it be cable, satellite, or telephony, these companies do spend several billions of dollars a year to upgrade their te

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning to everyone in Ottawa. My name is Karna Gupta. I'm the president and CEO of ITAC, the Information Technology Association of Canada. We represent the ICT sector in the country, which has about $160 billion in annual revenue. We invest about $4.

Finance committee  Okay, thank you. Canada's IP regime is not comparable with that of the other OECD nations. We need to create an IP regime that is consistent with others. I think the government should think about lower tax rates for revenue generated from intellectual property, relative to any

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. There are several measures to encourage the use of technology, such as the 2006 telecommunications policy review panel. They particularly identified ICT adoption with a lot of the tax credits that are tied to the CCA rate, and the conclusion was that

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. In today's environment it should not be that difficult because the satellite transmission and the wireless side has come down, particularly if you start looking at the next generation 5G network. Today, most networks in Canada can only transfer 400 me