Refine by MP, party, committee, province, or result type.
Industry committee It is. It's the only thing that's keeping us in the game.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
Industry committee Seven or eight.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
Industry committee Can I have a couple months, because I was just talking about the committee that we're forming to answer that question?
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
Industry committee Sure.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
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
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
Industry committee So it's not for the faint of heart. But, yes, we would be happy to be helping people like that.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
Industry committee Yes, absolutely.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
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.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
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.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
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
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
Industry committee I am really interested, and I would love to take that up off-line if there is an opportunity to do that.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
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
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
Industry committee I don't know of any that are, but I don't know for sure that they are not.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
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
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie
Industry committee It really depends on where you are. In western Canada it's strongly up. In the Montreal area, not so much.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Iain Christie