Industry committee  Thank you. On a totally different topic, last Thursday, Japanese minister of cybersecurity Yoshitaka Sakurada was testifying at a committee in Japan and admitted that he has never used a computer. I just want to clarify for the record that you have.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  I just want to make sure. Thank you. It's a segue into digital economy stuff. You've mentioned the importance of economy and infrastructure. We talked a bit about this with your officials a few minutes ago. Can you elaborate on what you've done to make sure Canadians have the op

Industry committee  I'm not sure you can answer this, but do you have a sense of how many coders are missing now in society? I've said this before. Twenty years ago, when I was learning to code—and I can code.... In my generation, we were in our basements with our trench coats on, with our long hair

Industry committee  As any programmer will tell you, no program is better than the person who wrote it, either.

Industry committee  There needs to be quite a bit of education on that. Thank you for that. We've talked a lot about the Internet, as you know. I'm wondering if you can talk a bit about the importance of our Internet infrastructure in the country. In my own riding, we know that more than half of t

Industry committee  That's fair enough. Thank you, Mr. Knubley. I'm going to pass it back to Mr. Longfield, who had a couple of questions.

Industry committee  Thank you. I have a few different subjects to dive into, but we will start with this one. Vote 1a has a $1.2-million reinvestment of royalties from intellectual property. As you know, we're talking about copyright a lot here and Crown corporation issues come up a little bit, bu

Industry committee  Yes, it's $1,004,358.

Industry committee  Okay. On the $200,000, what kinds of programs are they recovering that money from?

Industry committee  You mentioned also a reference to CanCode. From what I understand, Kids Code Jeunesse has met or completed all of its targets so far. Can anybody give me an update on how CanCode is going, and whether all of you can now code?

Industry committee  Wow.

Industry committee  So it hasn't reached complete success yet.

Industry committee  If a big bank sends in data, a small bank or credit union then might say, “Wow, look at this great data that we got from Statistics Canada from banks.” Is that providing a competitive advantage to smaller banks and is that why the bigger banks are worried?

Industry committee  No, but what about the results of the data^