Finance committee  We do have some great innovation in our country, for sure. Lots of studies have been done by very smart people looking at how we can become a more innovative economy, so I'm not going to speak to that specifically. But I do chair the board of Mitacs, so I'll throw that out there,

Finance committee  Tax rates are one component that a business considers when they look at the overall cost of doing business. Any company is going to look at their bottom line, and taxes obviously play a key component of the cost of doing business. Always pegging ourselves against our closest comp

Finance committee  Well, corporate income tax is a factor; provincial corporate business tax is a factor. Regulatory issues and approval times—and others have mentioned that—are all factors. It's not a specific tax. It's that overall cost of doing business and ease of doing business that I think so

Finance committee  It's not a retraction on global trade. I think it's a reflection on the current reality of global trade. If companies indeed are starting to shorten suppliers or bring suppliers close to production activity, then they're going to be buying more from the continent. It's a partia

Finance committee  There are a number of companies right now—and I would say probably almost all, with maybe the chemical and plastics industries exempt from that—involved in some type of production that are examining their supply chains from a security perspective. Part of that is looking at the n

Finance committee  Mr. Chair and members, thank you very much for inviting me to participate today. As mentioned, I am Diane Gray, president and CEO of CentrePort Canada. CentrePort, for those of you who don't know, is a 20,000-acre tri-modal inland port project in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It has been