International Trade committee  I'll just take the example of South Korea. We have had some interesting success in South Korea. I had the privilege of going there, and everywhere I went I met a senior executive who had spent a year studying in Canada at some point, or who had a child studying in Canada, or had

International Trade committee  Statistics Canada has been beat up a lot.

International Trade committee  You'll take that one.

International Trade committee  Can I offer an alternative? The alternative is firm-level data. The CRA produces firm-level data. There is an exports register that can be connected to the SR and ED database, which is where we know who is investing in R and D, and it can also be connected to the employment datab

International Trade committee  It's all there.

International Trade committee  Just sort by size of firm.

International Trade committee  Other countries in the world have made this a strategic sector. They may not be blessed with the natural resources we have, but they have actually decided that this is an important sector for them. So their chambers of commerce are engaged in value chain development. For example,

International Trade committee  We actually have taken a very conservative definition. The definition of the industry as having 41,000 people employed today is within innovation-based firms, which doesn't include project developers, the engineering firms, or the departments of renewable energy within the utilit

International Trade committee  I absolutely think there is. I think it would be on the basis of what one might call “clean tech 2.0”, which is going to be about more distributed technology, or less centralized technology. We're going to stop spending 20% of municipal budgets pumping clean and dirty water arou

International Trade committee  Yes, absolutely, and electric vehicles is a good example. You may be aware that the U.S. government made a very strategic loan to a large electric vehicles company in the order of $450 million. That loan has been paid back. There are also incentives in the U.S. for electric vehic

International Trade committee  I have not personally. The CCC has not announced any major contracts in this field. I do think, though, that the clean technology industry has a number of characteristics that would retain the CCC's attention, such as the size of the transactions and also the fact that in many co

International Trade committee  I assume you are talking about Biothermica. Is that the company you are referring to?

International Trade committee  They are a jewel in Quebec's crown; they do very good work. Enerkem is another example along the same lines. A number of companies in Canada can capitalize on the impact they have on the carbon market. It is certainly possible to increase the level of knowledge in those companies

International Trade committee  Companies in the sector are already doing that. The regulations set the stage for the markets, whether for water, for renewable energy, for energy efficiency or for transportation. Regulations always set the stage for the markets. Yes, Environment Canada could produce a summary

International Trade committee  There is an upside and a downside to the China development bank. The bottom line is that you have to pay to play, period, end of story, but it's not enough to pay. You have to pay and then you have to pay for demonstrations, so you have to be a shareholder, and then you have to s