Industry committee  I don't want to appear to avoid the question, but really, I don't know the answer. It is the same question that we are asking ourselves, and we are working very hard on it to come up with coherent answers to help the government. I don't have a short answer for you, no.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  We need a strategy that recognizes the business reality on the ground, which is that the engine of growth has to be the mid-sized companies, and the mid-sized companies are under a lot of different kinds of pressures that they need help to manage.

Industry committee  Most of that money is being spent at the top end of the industry, on what I would have referred to as balance sheet innovation. That's where most of the private.... The business investment into R and D, as was noted previously, is clearly at the top end. A lot of that would have

Industry committee  That's a good example because a lot of the composite work starts out as product innovation. It starts out as figuring out how to make new products from composites that you couldn't make before. But eventually it needs to become process innovation because Bell Helicopters or the l

Industry committee  It really depends on where you are. In western Canada it's strongly up. In the Montreal area, not so much.

Industry committee  It's even smaller. In the MRO section of our industry, the average size of a company is nine people. It really is a very small industry because the thing with MROs is that you can service business jets anywhere that somebody can fly them in.

Industry committee  In conjunction with government, that's the problem we're trying to solve. I don't have an answer for it but I know it's the thing that I would like to find a solution to.

Industry committee  I doubt it, but I don't know that they don't service them outside of the United States. I honestly don't know.

Industry committee  I doubt it, but maybe parts of Lufthansa aircraft, because MTU in British Columbia is owned by a subsidiary of Lufthansa. It is not that cut and dried.

Industry committee  Assistance in certification is something that would probably be helpful. The other thing is that, for operations like that, I think the issue is going to be a question of scale. Size is very much a proxy in our industry for readiness to be in the supply chain. Finding ways to

Industry committee  I am really interested, and I would love to take that up off-line if there is an opportunity to do that.

Industry committee  I am not sure that I know or have a good answer. It is also critical mass. It is also knowing that you can find staff, so if you have peaks and valleys in your demand, you can service those. Certainly labour rates play a role. It is a complicated business. It is true that MRO

Industry committee  I don't know of any that are, but I don't know for sure that they are not.

Industry committee  Yes. We certainly encourage a lot of networking and the whole point of the association is that we want the community to get together and talk. We've had a partnership at our annual event to try to get more auto companies that may want to make the pivot to aerospace and have conve