Government Operations committee  Anyway, if you're a minority-led business or a woman, then if IBM wins a major contract, or Lockheed Martin, or General Dynamics, or even any of the ones I was working with at Entrust—

Government Operations committee  No, wait; I'm going somewhere with this. I'm sorry. Essentially, the set-aside is 20% for the federal government of the U.S. What the corporates have—we call them “corporates” in We Connect International now—Walmart, Pfizer, RBC, and TD, so some of the Canadian companies are in

Government Operations committee  With respect to the Government of Canada, I think we have to start. There should be some sort of procurement policy that starts—

Government Operations committee  Don't forget that Walmart also sells retail products. They could buy—I don't know—maybe some of these DNA kits, then put them in their stores and make them available there. Actually, that's not a bad idea.

Government Operations committee  They probably would go for it.

Government Operations committee  I'm going to just give a quick answer, because I would like my colleagues to answer as well. For me, if we've done 50 responses, that's really bad, and it says there's something broken somewhere. We've been through the OSME training and still can't win a contract. The only way w

Government Operations committee  I did. That's what happened with the first company. It was an AI company that I spun out of NRC in 1999. I went to BDC, and they asked where AI was going to go. Everything is about AI now; that's a boat that sailed. In this case, I'll do my best to just keep growing this company

Government Operations committee  Honestly, take some of the money you give to BDC and give it to BCIP. BDC is not an equal, gender-diverse bank. Those would be my two cents. Michael...the president of BDC will probably be mad at me for saying that, but....

Government Operations committee  Even if you take me as an example company, BCIP in 2011 gave us our first substantial sale. Then the U.S. government looked at what I did in Canada, so now I have U.S. government customers because of the BCIP program. Then when I closed, the second BCIP was with CBSA. I now have

Government Operations committee  I was going to ask, “Now what do you do with it?”

Government Operations committee  Can you test it?

Government Operations committee  Do you mean in terms of bringing innovation to the government?

Government Operations committee  Certainly it is from my experience. Don't forget that Entrust was a publicly traded corporation, and I went in there as a vice president, so I got to see us selling to major institutions such as Citibank, Capital One, the U.S. government, the Canadian government, etc. I would sa

Government Operations committee  —or PeopleSoft, or any of those large companies, despite their deployments not working. Once Entrust acquired my business.... Entrust was a secure messaging company that used our content analysis to see what was in an email before deciding to encrypt it and send it off. By the wa

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon. I did prepare so that I could be succinct and to the point. By the way, this is the second time I am a witness—not at this particular committee, but I did a witnessing in 2011 as well. Maybe you'll get a bit of progress in 2017. My name is