International Trade committee  Absolutely. One of the ways you can help to advance that is by embedding individuals. Whether it's a trade commissioner or an adviser from BDC, you can embed those folks in regions so they are close by to act as a resource, and as Ms. Arsenault said, they have the opportunity to

International Trade committee  Yes, we read that with great interest. I think part of what we have been able to do over the last eight or nine years is work really closely with the trade commissioner service so that we're vetting companies, small companies typically, making sure that they are ready for a hand

International Trade committee  I think one of the ways to take advantage of that is to leverage the companies that are either building that technology or are using that technology to adapt their business in other industries. I can't speak to the downloadable bans.

International Trade committee  If I understand your question correctly, in a couple of areas of technology, Canada has the capacity to have world-leading advantage. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing and regenerative medicine are places where we really are at the front of being able to create some worl

International Trade committee  Part of the reason for our national network approach is to try to scale good programming and access to resources from one end of the country to the other. There are 26 of us in all kinds of communities trying to build this kind of capacity. There are three major problems we're a

International Trade committee  This is exactly the strategy we're trying to pursue, because we know companies have all kinds of options. We've seen a really encouraging trend in the last eight or nine years. We used to have really promising start-ups get a round of investment from a U.S.-based investor and tha

International Trade committee  We think of ourselves as a third category. The innovation hubs often will have an incubation program or an acceleration program as part of what they do. We work with companies from the one-person start-up right up to the size of OpenText or Google. We run the gamut. The focus in

International Trade committee  Absolutely.

International Trade committee  Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for the invitation to join you today. My name is Avvey Peters and I'm the chief strategy officer for Communitech. We're a tech organization in the Waterloo region of Ontario. It was established in 1997. I also lead something called the Canadian