International Trade committee  Thank you very much.

International Trade committee  Thank you. I like living in Newfoundland. I tell people it has added years to my life.

International Trade committee  I can remember when I moved here 12 years ago, people said to me, “You've worked all over the world. Why would you go to Newfoundland?” My answer was that was where the opportunities were. There are some great things happening here. If you talk about wireless technology, for ins

International Trade committee  We're trying to create that kind of environment here. I think if you looked at Newfoundland and Labrador in a traditional sense, it was heavily reliant on the natural resources that we have. Natural resources are cyclical. They come and they go, and the price points fluctuate. Al

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  Absolutely. Although we have a lot of great talent on the ground here, because a lot of our firms are specialized sometimes they just can't find that person. Right now, although our companies utilize as much local Newfoundlander and Labradorian and Canadian content as they can, t

International Trade committee  I think people are always concerned about their personal information: financial, health, legal. They want to know that this information is protected. They know that within Canada we have regulations, firewalls, and ways to protect that information. I think the unknown for people

International Trade committee  Thank you.

International Trade committee  Innovation is huge. It plays a big part in what we're doing here in innovating and improving and creating new opportunities. We've been fortunate to have Minister Bains down here on a couple of occasions. I'm working with the province right now on a provincial innovation strategy

International Trade committee  When you look at copyrights in terms of technology, most of what you're talking about has a very short lifespan. Typically, most of what we're dealing with today is obsolete three to five years from now. For what we deal with, most of the copyright protection that we have, we're

International Trade committee  From our standpoint, coming back to some of your earlier questions, most of our companies start out of the gate as global players. A lot of our players are not trying to sell domestically. They're immediately going out into the global marketplace, so access to those markets is hu

International Trade committee  We sell to most companies through third parties. We are not selling directly. We are selling through a supply chain.

International Trade committee  Yes, that is correct.

International Trade committee  Yes. The security systems will deal with ocean observing, deepwater oil and gas applications, maritime security and defence, and high-resolution imaging. If you look at the Franklin ship that was just discovered, you'll see that Newfoundland technology was involved in finding tha

International Trade committee  First all, there will always be people who want to live and work in other places. I have 30 years of doing that, so I get that part of it. At the same time, there are a lot of people who wish to stay and work in the places they were born and raised. The reason a lot of them will