Finance committee  Thank you for the question. We can be doing more and we should be doing more. It really centres around the need, as I talked about earlier, for an aerospace strategy in Canada. We see our competitor nations putting in place aerospace strategies really leveraging the innovation

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. We put forward numerous suggestions to lessen the impact of the tax. In fairness to the government, they did make some adjustments with respect to the exportation and cash flow considerations for companies. We were thankful for that, but after a year

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I very much appreciate it. We have significant, major concerns about the so-called luxury tax. I call it more of a tax on manufacturers, because that's really what it is. The original goal for the government, I believe, was to bring in around $9 mi

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I don't see any positives out of this at all. Our ask is that aircraft be removed from the tax on manufacturers. I may not have mentioned it, but we've seen 19 aircraft sales not go through because of the tax. Again, this represents over a billion do

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. There are significant challenges that our companies are seeing with the strategic innovation fund. I should say kudos to the government. Budget 2021, I believe, provided $1.75 billion through the strategic innovation fund for aerospace. I wouldn't say

Finance committee  Yes. It's not as responsive to aerospace. Aerospace has long been—

Finance committee  In general, across the country, aerospace has very long lead times. Developmental projects are long-term. In the past, there used to be very specific funding programs for aerospace that were well received by the industry. When SIF was created—

Finance committee  Those were up until, I think, 2017, and then the strategic innovation fund took over. The strategic innovation fund is sector-agnostic. It takes everything in. What we're seeing is a lot of back-and-forth with respect to understanding the industry and a long time to get approvals

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the opportunity to address you today on behalf of the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada. Allow me to once again thank you, members of the committee, for your commitment and support for our industry. Atlantic Canada

National Defence committee  I would agree that the engagement hasn't been the best in the past, but we do have a defence industry advisory group where we are starting to have these types of discussions on the overall basis of the procurement piece. We're starting to feed into this. There is perhaps a little

National Defence committee  I would say that industry is looking at this on its own. It's a big focus of aerospace in particular, net-zero goals, specifically on the civil side, which is good. But again, through the defence industrial strategy, and through the defence policy update, we would expect to see s

National Defence committee  I think it goes a little bit to the recommendation we have about risk-based procurement. Again, how do you streamline the defence procurement process? How do you reduce some of the unnecessary processes that are there—again, depending on the risk? I listened quite attentively to

National Defence committee  Absolutely, there is a role there. We've had lots of discussions, even with you, on the labour market side of things and how we can drive that forward. Any investment into the country, either domestic investment or international investment, is absolutely critical to driving some

National Defence committee  Proactivity would be number one, and then the identification of the key capacity and capabilities we want to have here in Canada. Those would then drive the ITB forward.

National Defence committee  It could be in the workforce. It could be technology, skill sets, programs—anything like this—but we need to have that clear identification and work with the government on some of these things.