International Trade committee  For our organizations, specifically around the importing of the materials and the raw goods, I know some of our producers are saying again, that for them, it's the bigger picture stuff. If they can't compete on this, they need to at least be able to compete on things like transpo

International Trade committee  From the businesses that I talked to, the comments I heard over and over again were not that there are not enough programs or that the programs don't exist. Don't get me wrong; they're not perfect, but there are lots. The biggest challenge most of our small and medium-sized busin

International Trade committee  Regarding the Atlantic immigration pilot program, the particular piece I was acknowledging was that we have a partnership with ACOA and the Nova Scotia office of immigration. That has enabled us to hire program leads who are on the ground in rural regions. They work for organizat

International Trade committee  For the Atlantic immigration pilot, the NOC codes are a bit different from those in some of the other streams, which has been incredibly beneficial, so we're bringing in chefs and a number of different types of NOC codes that we traditionally could not have. It has not been speci

International Trade committee  I had a little difficulty picking up the last part of what you just said, but I think you were asking about the Internet. I did a fair amount of research and talking with our small and medium-sized businesses across a range of industries before coming here today. I was a bit su

International Trade committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and committee members. On behalf of the Cape Breton Partnership I would like to thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. The Cape Breton Partnership is Cape Breton's private sector-led economic development organization, made up of more th