Industry committee  I might have a comment on that.

Industry committee  When we talk about an aerospace strategy, the reason we want a strategy like that is to also include a procurement strategy inside of that so that we have the benefit. Let's just take the example of the fighter jet. That fighter jet was supposed to be replaced over 20 years ago.

Industry committee  Twenty years.

Industry committee  Yes, absolutely. France has attached conditions to the funding they've invested to assist major businesses, which are now required to support the supply chain and small and medium-size enterprises. If there are no small and medium enterprises in the supply chain, as there are no

Industry committee  The airport is a community. We can't forget that. We talk about the pilots and the people on the aircraft serving passengers and things like that, but there's everything that goes on around it. There are small communities within the airports. There are baggage handlers, customer

Industry committee  No. I don't have that information. I didn't cost it out. I'm sorry about that.

Industry committee  I will look into that and I'll get back to you.

Industry committee  Absolutely.

Industry committee  As Ms. Benoît said, we're currently able to build an aircraft from A to Z, both here and elsewhere in Canada. So we have mechanics who maintain the aircraft and build engines, assembly line workers who assemble the aircraft and people who work on the avionic suites you see inside

Industry committee  I think a very long-term strategy would help avoid the situations we've experienced in the past, as in the case of Bombardier. Having a long-term strategy that supports the industry in a structured way would help avoid systematically throwing away money that's not earmarked for

Industry committee  Exactly. It's a monumental error that creates a negative public perception. That perception will continue to be negative as long as we operate this way, even though the industry provides work for 200,000 employees.

Industry committee  They are not. I have to be honest. A lot of the small and medium-sized businesses are using it. Some of the major ones, like Air Canada, are not, or they're partially using it. There haven't been obligations put on the employers to use it to keep people employed and at work. I be

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  I agree with Mike on that. Before this pandemic, our industry had problems and we had massive labour shortages. Through this pandemic, right now what's happening is that our union has about 10,000 people on layoff, furlough or not at work currently. I know there are several t

Industry committee  I don't want to get into the specifics of which program. I don't think there's any sector-specific program right now. Essentially the programs that exist are not dedicated to aerospace, to our industry. That's one thing. I think we have a lack of structure. We have a lot of thing