Industry committee  Thank you. I'm glad somebody read it. Canada was never as high as fourth on the connectivity scorecard. I think it's always ranged between sixth and eighth, which it was in 2011, out of 25 advanced economies. It ranks very well in a number of areas such as business infrastruct

Industry committee  Well, we have something called the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans; we all meet and have an organization in Montreal that we all deal with, and there is a secretariat. At that level, it's doable: we all have contact and have the secretariat, and we can plan these thi

Industry committee  Not as yet; these are very large micro-data sets, at the individual firm level, and it's going to require some time for researchers to use those very large data sets to tease out what the results are. But they do give us far better measures. We didn't have very good measures, e

Industry committee  Sure. Thank you. There was a study done by the U.K. Federation of Small Businesses in late 2011. They asked their members if they would use mobile broadband, and 33% said never, 25% asked what it was, 20% said they use it now, and the others said they'd think about it. They did

Industry committee  They certainly do, but when I look at where our campuses are situated around the country, and when I think about what we do as business schools and as leaders, and how we're engaged with our communities, I think we can be another avenue, a trusted kind of avenue. These organizati

Industry committee  I hope that's not the reason I was invited here, Sir.

Industry committee  Thank you. On April 30, Scott Smith of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, in appearing before this committee, referred to my research that ranks countries in terms of useful connectivity. Briefly, my research emphasizes that the services, skills, and applications required to turn