Industry committee  Thank you. Can I come in with a comment on that too?

Industry committee  I'll take 30 seconds. We make a forecast of demands for aircraft going out 20 years. Airbus does the same. They'll roughly say that the current fleet will double over that period. We're talking about 40,000 new planes. All of those need pilots, maintenance people and ground serv

Industry committee  May I ask Bill Lyons to come in on that one? He's our global head of research and technology placement and works with governments and universities all the time. He's the real expert on that. Bill, do you want to pick it up?

Industry committee  Could I...? I'm sorry, Bill. You go first.

Industry committee  I was just going to give another nice example. There's a company called Héroux-Devtek, which makes landing gear. It's one of the world's best landing gear suppliers. If I'm right, it's in the riding of Madam Chair. There's a very good example of how, when a 737 lands in Canada, H

Industry committee  It's Michael Arthur here. Let me just come in from Boeing, the only foreign company here on the panel. There are two things. First, the last thing we're asking for is bailouts from government. We're here on a competitive basis. As I said in my earlier remarks, if we win a govern

Industry committee  The Canadian government requires that we reinvest after 100%. I think its $11 billion over past history, and $8.8 billion or $9 billion of that has already been done. We've set that aside. We've fulfilled our obligations. We're in the remaining $1.8 billion that's left, so we are

Industry committee  Actually, with respect, I beg to differ on that. If we see, for example, the Super Hornet campaign going forward.... If we were to be successful in that, we would do a huge amount of investment in Canada in the sustainment of the whole project going forward. We haven't yet worke

Industry committee  Yes, quite possibly we would. As I say, the Boeing workforce we are going to need in Canada is something we have to take very seriously, assuming the business develops in the way I have described. We are talking about new skills in the industry. I thus absolutely take that away.

Industry committee  There are two things I would say. First, we have partnerships with seven different Canadian universities where we do a bit of research, but we also invest for recruitment purposes. If you look at what I was mentioning earlier in Vancouver and the cluster work we have there, you

Industry committee  They tend to be more research grants, as well as student scholarship types of funds.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Généreux. If I've understood your question, it's about the recent order of the Max for WestJet. The Max is now back flying. Thank you to Transport Canada for having reauthorized that. These are planes made in the United States, so I wasn't quite clear why your

Industry committee  Good morning, and thank you, Madam Chair and committee members, for this chance to speak with you today. Our aerospace industry and commercial air carriers have suffered greatly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The air travel restrictions brought in to address these real and immedi