Finance committee  I am, again, going to take the positive road and I'll reflect on the biosector. I think something is going to be broadened in Prince Edward Island using labour market agreement dollars; that is, putting more onus and more responsibility on the shoulders of some of the not-for-p

Finance committee  My comment was about infrastructure that is not specific to individual businesses. This is supporting businesses in general, but probably owned and operated in a not-for-profit fashion, or frankly, on the academic side of things. To be clear, it's not a competitive situation. It'

Finance committee  Are you asking about the specific challenge of balancing the budget?

Finance committee  What does it do to families across Atlantic Canada? It's really a matter of people being able to put bread and milk on the table and pay the bills and be in a community where they can have competitive businesses, job opportunities, and so on. The tax situation is not top of mind

Finance committee  It's all in your definitions, I guess. I think there are a lot of folks who would love to pull some of the process back and start it again. The process certainly had its shortcomings. Frankly, at this stage we're mostly concerned about where to go from here. The communications w

Finance committee  It's a really important question. I think Atlantic Canada has a lot of really good things going, so I'm not going to start with a doom and gloom picture of where we are. Survival is a very strong incentive, and I think we've realized, from the business community side of things, w

Finance committee  Good morning, everyone. I'm being passed the baton here. We're a tag team. I have a couple of our other priority areas within our advocacy program that certainly feed into a conversation about productivity. In our pre-budget submission, a second item of our proposal was related