Industry committee  Mr. Chair, I'll be very short. I want to talk about two things. One is the basic objectives of the act, and the Minister referred to them. I also want to talk about some of the principles and objectives in terms of the design of the bill, which I think are important to understan

Industry committee  I think this is an area of important clarification. There may be two sets of points, and I'll ask my colleagues to help me on this. First, I think we believe, as administrators, that we are not opening the door wider in this regard. What we are actually doing is bringing PIPEDA

Industry committee  I'll start and then let Philip Jennings help me out here. As you said, Canada's manufacturing sector directly contributes 10% to 11% of our GDP and employs over 1.7 million Canadians. Why it's so important, though, is that typically manufacturing is about innovation and also is

Industry committee  Well, a very concrete example is the advanced manufacturing fund, which was raised earlier, where we are hoping to soon come out with announcements in that area. The department has been working very closely, in fact, in reviewing the projects related to the advanced manufacturing

Industry committee  I'll let Kelly explain in detail. As you noted, the main objective of the 700 megahertz auction, or indeed any auction, is to promote competitiveness and to provide more bandwidth, if you like, to the various companies. The revenue goals are not the prime focus of the auctions t

Industry committee  I think we are talking about the future here.

Industry committee  Again, I think these are questions that are best put directly to Statistics Canada. We can take this question on board and come back to you with a specific answer. Having worked on the preparations for the 2016 census, I know that these are the issues that are at play.

Industry committee  I think that's just a strong recognition today that what we're trying to do—and it relates to this commercialization issue—is to encourage firms to develop their intellectual property and use it.

Industry committee  I think typically as well there would be an evaluation after a reasonable period. A concrete example of these incubators is Communitech in Waterloo. These kinds of incubators have been quite common in Silicon Valley and have been very successful. I think we're quite pleased to se

Industry committee  Maybe I would just add that I think in the broader context it has been the Emerson report, which involved a series of consultations for really a year-long period.... Obviously SADI is one part of the aerospace sector, but certainly Mr. Emerson and his fellow colleagues spent a lo

Industry committee  I'll give you a general answer and then turn to Phil to talk about the particular sectoral activity that we've got on under way. In general it's the productivity problem and it's been this way for many years. If one of my predecessors, Kevin Lynch, were here, he would be telling

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, it's very important to recognize in this area as well that there was a study and a report by Tom Jenkins called “Review of Federal Support to Research and Development”. This was tabled in 2011. Since that time, there has been a series of budget announcements in 2012-

Industry committee  There are lots of actions and Lisa can tell you all about them.

Industry committee  The Canada first research excellence fund, which is a $1.5 billion program over 10 years, was announced in the last budget. As indicated in that budget, it is to focus on excellence in university research. There is to be an announcement very shortly on this issue and how the proc

Industry committee  Simply put, though, we believe that this is truly just modernization of the language. The legal risks are low.