Industry committee  I believe that small and medium-sized companies are at the heart of economic development in any region in Canada. They need help, and one part of the help from the Polytechnics Canada perspective is helping us to help them. That is one of the elements that I suggest. Manufactur

Industry committee  Of course I would, because we are missing the talent. You don't have a skill gap if you.... You have a skill gap, yes, but it is a skill gap that Canada has in certain areas.

Industry committee  Yes. The other thing is people in the 35-plus category. What happened to them? We are always saying that we need expertise and experience. Those who are 35 plus who want to come here have a difficulty in immigrating because they are older. We are talking about women in technolo

Industry committee  That is very simple. Look at the chart. Look at the percentage of research that is happening. You were talking about Bombardier. I wanted to ask how much of the R and D at Bombardier is happening in Canada. Two percent of Bombardier work is research; 97% or 98% is manufacturing a

Industry committee  Of course. That is where the money must go, because that is where all those activities are going on—

Industry committee  The other things are commercialization and manufacturing and so on. If we are getting 2.5% to help the SMEs, imagine that you double it to 5%. It makes a huge impact to us. I'm not against university research, because I came from university research, yet I see that in Germany 90

Industry committee  No, I mean German research going into Germany. A lot of the money is going to research and also applied research. They look at the spectrum and divide the money there.

Industry committee  Again, I think that there are few mechanisms for immigration and refugee and talent acquisition. When international students finish the two years, there is no process, really, to see their value added to the whole ecosystem. We are not guiding them, we are not driving them, and t

Industry committee  I only wanted to say that I think that the Ontario provincial and Canadian federal immigration systems don't produce talent for industrial manufacturing. I don't know what the problem is. That's not my expertise, but it's clear that we are not inviting the talent through our immi

Industry committee  Two things happened at the same time. One is that the dollar came down, but the other thing was the change in the behaviour of manufacturing as a whole. We are shifting to the new paradigm of the knowledge economy. When you compare the manufacturing era of 20 years ago in Albert

Industry committee  If you have extra money, why not?

Industry committee  It is not at all a problem with the government; it's a problem with the educational system. Our educational system is a very traditional system. I don't even call it a system. What is a system? If you look at a systems approach, the system, which wants to keep its character, mus

Industry committee  Those 30 seconds go so fast.

Industry committee  I will add to that. We have robots in Canada that are unique. Two months ago one was announced in Sweden. We got it, and we are working collaboratively on a robot. Our robotic facilities are state of the art, but the problem is that politicians in Canada are not paying attention

Industry committee  Lots of times I've talked about a healthy ecosystem. Why are they working with ABB and Siemens and Hatch? The reason is not that they are ABB and Siemens and Hatch; the reason is that we are trying to bring technology drivers into our technology playground. Technology drivers wil