Industry committee  That is harder to quantify, and it would certainly take more than a minute to answer. It varies, depending on which company you are talking about.

Industry committee  Basically.

Industry committee  Global competition, because only the companies that manage to figure out a way to do it can compete globally, so being unproductive just isn't an option.

Industry committee  To go farther, it's going to take more than a minute. The short answer is yes.

Industry committee  You have only to look at the massive innovation engine that the U.S. Department of Defence represents to understand how government can use public procurement spending to generate innovation in an aerospace industry. The government can use and leverage the money that it spends to

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  It isn't the subject that comes up very often. Typically, we as an association don't represent...airlines are representing the manufacturers. Most of the companies that are the targets of what I call the process innovators are by and large privately owned. They tend to be indivi

Industry committee  Okay.

Industry committee  Of course, you also have Kelowna Flightcraft, which is the real star in the industry.

Industry committee  No, and there are a number of initiatives under way. We need to get the industry connected to the educational institutes and find out what jobs are needed. There was recently a very large labour market information study done, not by us but by the Council for Aviation & Aerosp

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Yes. The problem is that companies that started out as entrepreneurial innovators are run by guys who like to be entrepreneurial innovators. There is a psychological gap that has to be crossed to turn those guys into process innovators. Frankly, I think that's where some of the c

Industry committee  —a lot of them involve a lot of other stakeholders. It's complicated, but it is something that the industry is quite concerned about.

Industry committee  This is one of the abiding concerns that we have in our industry. Because of the cycle that we find the global industry in, where we really are in an execution cycle, this makes it very difficult for entrepreneurial innovators in aerospace. Airplanes have been designed and now th

Industry committee  No. There's even a slide in that report that says growth is occurring in the mid-sized....