Industry committee  So it's not for the faint of heart. But, yes, we would be happy to be helping people like that.

Industry committee  Yes, absolutely.

Industry committee  Yes, and as I said, in aerospace these days, there's no such thing as a secure contract. There really isn't.

Industry committee  I'm sorry, I don't want to take up too much of your time, but the whole point on SR and EDs, and I just came from this discussion, is that our members find SR and ED incredibly useful, but it doesn't necessarily generate the behaviour in them the government wants. It's not just a

Industry committee  You have me at a loss because of course we don't represent airlines, so I don't represent anybody who's in the cargo business except KF Aerospace a little. It's not an area that I know much about. On the maintenance repair and overhaul side, it's the same discussion. The way th

Industry committee  It is. It's the only thing that's keeping us in the game.

Industry committee  Seven or eight.

Industry committee  Can I have a couple months, because I was just talking about the committee that we're forming to answer that question?

Industry committee  Sure.

Industry committee  Because Canadian industry is winning and is competing globally and is generating prosperity from our creativity today.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members, for the opportunity to speak to you today about small business and the procurement process. What can we be doing to ensure that small businesses benefit from the procurement process, what's working, and what could we be doing better?

Government Operations committee  I'll try to be brief. Put it this way, it's really in the DNA of anybody who runs a business that the thing you're always trying to do is to please your customers. The reason you're trying to do that is that you want them to be repeat customers. It's a mantra that “no customer

Government Operations committee  Small businesses would rather have people working to make the customer happy than pay people like Jim and I to sit on the Hill and explain that.

Government Operations committee  We should remember, as Jim said, that the companies we represent engage with the federal government on very particular kinds of procurement, and they tend to be high-dollar-value, high-complexity procurements. There are some concerns, like the ones Louis expressed, that a lot of

Government Operations committee  With respect to government procurement, ITBs are squarely where we live. You could probably try to stop me from having an opinion, but you'd be unsuccessful. Again, there's no question that we certainly have come a long way in the last few years. The very transactional nature of