National Defence committee  When you're talking about resources, I assume you mean both services and products. The challenge right now is that much of the.... Certainly within the agencies, the resources are within the agencies and the products typically have been developed within the agencies, so there isn

National Defence committee  Good morning. Thank you again for the invitation to appear before this committee. Today I will provide you with the perspective of the Canadian defence and security industry and the subset of companies that make up Canada’s cybersecurity industry. Canada’s cybersecurity indus

Government Operations committee  We use a policy here in Canada that's called an “offset policy”, which is the ITB value proposition. As I said, for proposals of a certain size or bids of a certain size, you apply this policy. This is what incentivizes corporations to put supply chain and other technologies or o

Government Operations committee  Well, as I said, it's critical, because if you don't do this, what happens is that major platform acquisitions will be sourced from other nations. For example, in the case of the NSS, if we had just bought the Type 26 from the Brits, it likely would not include a maintenance tr

Government Operations committee  I can take it on a national level. There are three things that are happening. One is measurement. You came out with that statistic. In 2018, for the first time in the defence sector, we started to measure the number of women in the defence industry in order to be able to set u

Government Operations committee  Well, it depends how you set up your ITBs. As you heard Mr. Aubertin say, there are various multipliers for the ITBs that are—

Government Operations committee  There are variations on the ITBs. Predominantly, we would like to see direct ITB placed on the actual equipment that is being procured. Secondarily, we would like to see it in innovation technology and other research places. Then, with what we call a third tier of ITB, which is

Government Operations committee  The amount of the ITB that can be direct depends on the platform. There's a portion of it that is direct on the platform. We know that in the case of the light armoured vehicles in London, for example, there are over 400 companies involved in the direct application of building

Government Operations committee  Well, that's the thing. The direct and the indirect aspects allow the business to basically do its best to bring back that value to the economy. In some cases, what you're going to find is that a piece of technology is already sourced. It is largely “off the shelf”, let's call it

Government Operations committee  Well, it's not so much their ability to be able to export the ship; it's whether or not Canada would undertake such a team Canada approach to a ship and if another nation would want to purchase it with their own customizations. When you—

Government Operations committee  I can't answer that because I'm not another purchasing nation, but these—

Government Operations committee  We have a membership model. Right now, we have about 550 industrial partners, and then we also get our funding by running an event. We run the very large trade show called CANSEC. Those are our two—

Government Operations committee  Yes, of course.

Government Operations committee  That's fine.

Government Operations committee  In general, the defence sector exports between 50% and 60% of its goods. In shipbuilding, it's a little bit more challenging. The reality is that this ship is fit for Canadian purposes, and the design of the ship is from Britain, so the Type 26 will be sold around the world. Ther