Citizenship and Immigration committee  Perhaps I could jump in here. I had commented on the retention numbers from the province. Those numbers were directly reported from the province of P.E.I. I can speak to this more from the perspective of the entrepreneurial investor newcomers, the 500 clients whom we worked wit

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will wrap it up there. Just applying the lessons from the Atlantic immigration pilot program, there is real potential for it to be rolled out nationally, looking at other regions that are having some of the same demographic challenges as our region. Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm Penny Walsh McGuire. Walsh McGuire is the last name. Thank you. Good evening, Chair, vice-chairs, and members of the standing committee, as well as fellow witnesses. Thank you for the opportunity to address the committee on this important topic of immigration in Atlantic Ca

Finance committee  If I recall, there are I think six airports that were on the Canadian Chamber of Commerce resolution and that of course don't have access to the ACAP funding because they're on federal land. My colleagues at the airport have identified that infrastructure or that access to capi

Finance committee  Just to add to that from a tourism perspective, we've see what the increased capacity can do for a place that relies heavily on tourism.

Finance committee  Yes. [Technical difficulty—Editor] related to the PEI Connectors program, it's specifically targeting an audience that is looking to become an entrepreneur here in Prince Edward Island, to create jobs and to create prosperity, but with that entrepreneurial newcomer comes a family

Finance committee  To reiterate, on the point of taxation waivers for new entrepreneurs, we have submitted some points around that in our written proposal from August. I might ask my colleague Ron to speak to the access to capital. He's been leading a pretty important initiative through Island Ad

Finance committee  I'll build on what Ron said. The chamber feels that it is very important that the government facilitate private sector-led development through competitive tax measures. In our written submission, we commented on the reduction of the small business tax rate to 9% by 2019, and we a

Finance committee  We are currently undergoing a consultation with our members, so it probably would be a bit premature for me to say what the specific position of our members across all sectors is. What we're hearing around the discussion of a carbon tax model is the idea of a revenue-neutral appr

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  PEI Connectors is a program that the chamber of commerce initiated and has operated since 2011. We have worked with 600 entrepreneurial newcomers to Prince Edward Island. Primarily, they are referred to the program through the provincial nominee program. Our role in that program

Finance committee  Good morning, Chair and members of the Standing Committee on Finance. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee on the topic of the 2017 federal budget. The chamber serves as the voice of business in the greater Charlottetown area, and that takes in Stratford, Corn

Government Operations committee  I'm kind of building on what Katharine was saying. There is huge infrastructure across Canada in very rural areas, and there are also small and medium-sized businesses perhaps looking for space. Is there a private-public partnership that could take place so that the infrastructur

Government Operations committee  I'd probably want to think a little bit about that in terms of the members that we represent and what kinds of services they could provide. I'm sure there are underserved areas of Canada, from a public service perspective, that could partner up with Canada Post.

Government Operations committee  Is there a time frame around phase II beyond the report? Does the committee have a time frame in terms of implementing change?