Industry committee  I will say we are hearing from employers about the need to compete, including wages and benefits, and work arrangements as well. I think a lot of people have questioned their work arrangements. Some people can work from home. Some people are in the service industry and have to in

Industry committee  I think it's important. Just the market dynamics of competing for a workforce are bringing employers to realize they need to provide more attractive pay packages, and “packages” could be many different things. I think the government has a role in making sure the marketplace is fa

Industry committee  Thanks for the question. As part of the study, I think going into the recovery it will be making sure that Canadian businesses have the supports, the workforce and the capacity to succeed and be able to continue to grow in scale. I think we need to pay particular attention as w

Industry committee  The challenges that tourism operators in border communities are facing are similar to many of the challenges that tourism operators are facing. The most pressing concern we hear these days is about the access to people, employees and a workforce to be able to fulfill and respond

Industry committee  We are actively investing in a range of programs. We measure success by looking at the number of entrepreneurs who have been supported. We look at the longevity of the businesses that were supported, and how much employment they created. That's sort of the economic spinoff—

Industry committee  When we support a business, we look to see how long, and how many jobs have been created on that front, or how many employees they have. We sometimes have metrics to measure the tenure of the job. Sometimes we look for... If we invest in 2020, we look down the road two years, thr

Industry committee  You are right that the tourism industry was the first impacted, and it will probably have one of the longest recoveries as we come out of the pandemic. The government has invested to sort of help the tourism industry through the tourism relief fund, and through the pandemic, the

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. The tourism industry has relayed the concern to us about the ArriveCAN app and the need to make sure that people understand and are aware of it. We are working with our tourism partners to see how we can get that message out more broadly. I do know t

Industry committee  Thank you for your question. The government has made a few investments, through a few different approaches, to help businesses get information and then work towards accessing programs. I would draw your attention to the Canada Business app, which is an application designed for

Industry committee  I unfortunately can't recall offhand if that was communicated to me. I'd have to go back internally and talk to colleagues in the department who work more closely on this file.

Industry committee  Unfortunately, I don't have that information. Again, the Treasury Board Secretariat is the lead for the administrative regulatory burden review for the Government of Canada, so we would have to check in with those colleagues, or you may wish to invite them for a future committee

Industry committee  I'm just going to check with Martin to see if he has anything on this one from the competition side. If not, I think we'll have to go back to our colleagues, look at the question and see what we can provide to the committee.

Industry committee  The Treasury Board Secretariat has the lead for the red tape reduction exercise across government, and all departments do participate in ongoing work with the Treasury Board to explore regulatory and administrative burden questions. I don't have the immediate answer on where the

Industry committee  Unfortunately, ISED does not control the scorecards. Those are controlled by the Treasury Board Secretariat. We can definitely indicate your interest to the Treasury Board Secretariat, but I can't commit to that from ISED's part.

Industry committee  I can commit for ISED to follow up on where our administrative burden counts are and our regulatory pieces, yes.