Finance committee  Our MO is all about “should rise together in Canada”, so we work closely with several accelerators, incubators and different programs. Recently there's a new upscaling initiative that was just out for RFI last week and closed, and there are a number of organizations such as CCI t

Finance committee  To be absolutely honest with you, we haven't seen a huge departure of Canadian companies from Canada at this point in time. There's always the threat, and some companies have either folded or been acquired by U.S. firms. Simply due to the fact that we have a huge talent supply he

Finance committee  That's a really good question. I don't know specifically the data and I can come back to you on that, but as I mentioned before, I would render a guess that probably about 80% to 90% of our companies had some interaction with the wage subsidy for sure, in its second iteration.

Finance committee  Certainly. Thank you for the question. As I mentioned in my comments previously, I think a number of Canadian companies can offer and deliver the same services. Delaying on a decision around what market entry Huawei has into Canada just signals that Canadian companies are kind o

Finance committee  Sorry, I was confused whether the question was for us or for another colleague here. Yes, regarding patient capital, it's funny because people think “patient” refers to people in hospitals. That's not what it is. Patient capital is that long-term investment—that long-term play.

Finance committee  Absolutely. We always house our advocacy in four main buckets: access to talent; access to capital; access to customers, which is about procurement and international trade opportunities; and the marketplace frameworks that I've mentioned today. Working backwards, the marketplac

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  I'll answer the first question in English and then send the second one over to my colleague to answer in French. For start-ups, scale-ups and technology companies across the board, in the very early days of the panic mode of the pandemic it was a very scary time, obviously. I w

Finance committee  Those are great questions. I think they're heavily correlated, and I'll respond with two correlated answers as well. I think we certainly need to have a decision on Huawei. That has been something that the government has been pushing off for the last few months, and Canadian co

Finance committee  Certainly. You are correct. It's on the record. Our media release did say “through and through”. I think the narrative behind the intention of how we wanted to celebrate this budget was really that it's a signal to the economy, and the innovation economy more specifically, that w

Finance committee  Alberta is a really interesting use case right now. Their tech unemployment rate is at zero and they're crying for tech talent. Minister Schweitzer out in Alberta has done a pretty good job at working with innovators across the board, and they recognize that there is this neces

Finance committee  Thank you, Nick. This is something that CCI has been calling on for a long time. Generally speaking, this is about capacity-building and so we have had a number of initiatives from across the government related to innovation with the creation economic panels. We saw the strat

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Her name is Honey.

Finance committee  Wonderful.