Finance committee  As Canadians, the fact is that we've been importing that product forever, and this will be the first production in Canada, with another plant about to be started as well.

Finance committee  Exactly. Thank you.

Finance committee  Thank you, and thank you all for coming and being with us this morning. I just want to make a couple of comments. David, on your support for Mitacs, I want to let you know that yesterday in Victoria we had an excellent presentation from them, and we certainly learned the scope

Finance committee  Good. That's very concise. That you very much. I'll turn to the agricultural manufacturers. Thank you for your presentation, Richelle, and to Tyler for coming. I come from an agriculture community. We talk about the accelerated capital cost allowance, which I was interested to

Finance committee  Good morning, and thank you for coming. I'm Kim Rudd. I am the member of Parliament for Northumberland—Peterborough South. For context, that is a rural riding in southeastern Ontario. It is good to be back in Edmonton. I really look forward to your presentations this morning. T

Finance committee  Alberta has its own plan and it decides what to do with the money and whether it goes to businesses. In B.C., they have done a combination of businesses...direct tax returns to individuals. I wonder if that has been contemplated in Alberta and is being done. Maybe someone else ha

Finance committee  Thank you. I have just a couple of things. Michael, you talked about the proceeds, if you will, of the price on pollution coming back to businesses for enhancing equipment around energy efficiency and those kinds of things. Is that correct?

Finance committee  Certainly, in my former role as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources, I learned a lot about the sector and some of the real innovation that was happening around reduction of energy use, water use and a number of things. It actually increased and enhanced t

Finance committee  Sorry. I very much appreciate you putting that correction on the record. Ken, I'm going to come back to you again, if you don't mind. I am a former president of a chamber of commerce and an entrepreneur for 30 years, and I have been through the cycles of business over that time,

Finance committee  Is that your own study?

Finance committee  It's really important to clarify that it is a Canadian study, because I found about 10 numbers and none are that one. We just need to be clear about what the study is.

Finance committee  Others were, I think the chamber of commerce and others.

Finance committee  Ken, maybe you could comment on that.

Finance committee  Thank you very much, everyone, for coming. There are so many questions and so little time, so my apologies if it seems I'm rushing you through. There are a number of things that have come out. I'm going to follow up on what Peter is talking about and the value-added. I had the o

Finance committee  I'm Kim Rudd, member of Parliament for Northumberland—Peterborough South. For context, that is a rural riding in southeastern Ontario. It's great to see Lynette and Mark after my last trip and the great tours you gave me in July. I'm glad to be back.