Foreign Affairs committee  I believe, yes, we absolutely will. Large multinationals with foreign head offices and footprints elsewhere will look to moving their technology, which means essentially moving their lines of business outside of Canada. It actually creates a huge effect for the supply chain. In C

Foreign Affairs committee  There are approximately 62,000 of them and over 50% of our revenues come from the export business, so we are not sustainable in the Canadian market alone.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, of course. We have absolutely no issue with being a part of the UN ATT. I would echo my remarks in 2017, which is that under this regime, in particular with the exports to Turkey, you have seen an instance of diversion and permits were indeed cancelled, so the regime is work

Foreign Affairs committee  What I would say is that Canada has gone above and beyond by putting it into legislation, as opposed to regulation. That nuance is simply that most countries would put it into regulation, which would allow them to be slightly more flexible over time in how they transform or modif

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Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, so do I. It is always possible that goods will arrive in the hands of people who do not follow the rules that are set, or the end-user assurances that are given. It is a risk of doing business in this particular industry. Yes, it is.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for inviting me to share our views on Canada's export control system. We presently represent over 400 Canadian firms—over the last five years, we have represented, at times, nearly 1,000 firms—that produce technologies and services for the Canadian Armed Forc

Industry committee  It's a bit of a challenge for me to talk specific projects, obviously. As you can imagine, we do have competitors within the association that would be positioning themselves, so I'll talk about it very generally. One is that we need to look at projects on book that could potenti

Industry committee  I ate up all your time.

Industry committee  The truth of the matter is I can't make that assessment as to where the priority for the Canadian Forces is. They need to look at all the requests that are being made of them from our strategic partners, from our close allies in the United States, and our own national security as

Industry committee  I can answer that question.

Industry committee  The Canadian Armed Forces is part of Canada's national security. We have a massive country. We are a fundamental NORAD partner, so we have responsibilities with the Americans to look after what they consider to be their northern territory from any incursions coming out of anywher

Industry committee  Like I mentioned, there's a very long shopping list of programs in the defence capability's blueprint. Essentially, that is what the Canadian Forces intends to buy across army, navy, air force, space systems, you name it, over the next 20 years. Largely, the capital acquisitions

Industry committee  Sure. Fighter lead-in training and future air crew training are projects that will need to be sourced. They could be pulled forward in the acquisition schedule to start them as quickly as possible. We have Canadian companies that are key industrial capabilities in those areas. Th

Industry committee  Good morning. My name is Christyn Cianfarani, president and CEO of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries, CADSI for short. Our association represents several hundred firms across Canada that produce defence and security-related goods and services for both