Finance committee  It's a bit of both. The best way to develop growth in some of those developing countries is this private sector growth, and the way to do that is through financing. Canada already participates in IFC and World Bank and so a lot of those contracts are done in countries like Ghana

Finance committee  Absolutely we think these types of programs giving students the experience to make a decision are a great idea. We just put out a report a couple of weeks ago on how hard it is for students to bridge going from university into the workforce and how it's something we have to do a

Finance committee  Yes, one of the challenges has been why more apprentices don't fill out the third or fourth year. One of the challenges is that they just find another job or something different. That's why we were really looking at a tax incentive to make it more reasonable for businesses to hol

Finance committee  Absolutely. You're right.

Finance committee  Absolutely. The one thing we've heard from some of our members is that small business is more dependent on this type of labour and market information than others and big businesses can go out and get their own information, or pay for it. Hotel chains have enormous amounts of data

Finance committee  I understand your concerns fully and I agree with you. It has been suggested that rates be lowered by eliminating special reductions for certain tax credits. But we think it would be possible to balance the budget by making infrastructure investments without granting huge reduct

Finance committee  That's actually an excellent point because the European Union is doing a review of how these have been looked at. There's a lot of research going on to see how these have been put in place. We think if the definition of an innovation box is sufficiently broad to talk about potent

Finance committee  Yes. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities estimates that $172 billion in infrastructure investment is needed in Canada. If you add to that figure airports, ports and highways, you get $500 billion. That is massive. The private sector could play a key role in that investme

Finance committee  We believe that certain tax reductions will generate economic activity and thus more revenue. Given the labour shortage in some industries, investment in training could really help stimulate economic activity that, we hope, will in turn raise revenues.

Finance committee  You're absolutely right. That is one of the risks with the policy, so it has to be designed very specifically, so that it can't be evergreened and there are limits to it. Either you would cap the amount, so you can say up to $200 million or half a billion, whatever, in tax relief

Finance committee  That absolutely is a great point, and we haven't been prescriptive about the specifics or the rates of how much. We would like to work with Finance or tax policy to design how a program would look like. We've seen some really great examples, as we said, in the U.K. or in the Neth

Finance committee  Absolutely. Payroll taxes are the most harmful types of taxes. As Corinne pointed out, it's those for which it doesn't matter how much income you have; it's just a tax on jobs.

Finance committee  Absolutely we would support more spending, with borrowing costs for 10 years at 2%.

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely

Finance committee  Absolutely. Business certainly recognizes that it has an important role in providing that training. The challenge is that there are certain areas and certain regions where they've done everything possible. They've tried desperately to recruit people and they're just not finding t