Finance committee  The most direct impact on Mr. Lazar's industry would come from the movement in the Canadian dollar that would result from lower interest rates. Canadian financial assets would be seen as less attractive vis-à-vis American assets. There would be a smaller inflow of cash to buy tho

Finance committee  Yes, 50 basis points would have an impact for more than five minutes.

Finance committee  Well, I think certainly the notion of extending the capital cost allowance beyond its sunset, making it even potentially permanent, is very definitely important, and that was I think at least hinted at in the economic statement. Regarding the reduction of corporate taxes, as Avr

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for inviting the Conference Board of Canada to present today. The topic I'm going to be focusing on is the impact of the rise in the Canadian dollar on the Canadian tourism industry. Just for backgr

Industry committee  On the accreditation issue as well, we think we have to do something, because it's frankly a bit of a mess currently. Part of the issue is, again, federal-provincial jurisdiction issues. One way to break the logjam, I would propose, would be to identify five, six, ten crisis indu

Industry committee  To support what Mr. Murphy said, if you are going to take EI money and any surplus that exists in the account and apply that money to apprenticeship programs, one would argue that at least it's directly supporting employment in the future. In some sense, it would still meet Mr. M

Industry committee  This is an extremely challenging and clearly difficult task to undertake. I have just a few comments. Again, I can't claim to be an expert in agricultural regulation, but I could make a couple of comments. One, whereas health and safety and the environment are obviously critical

Industry committee  Again, I have a very brief point. When we compare the appetite for high-technology investment between Canada and the United States, the real problem is with the uptake among small and medium-sized enterprises in Canada compared to the United States. In the United States, small

Industry committee  I have a quick, general comment. I think it's important to recognize that EI premiums are a tax on labour. In general, you're lowering employment by doing that. You want to keep that as low as possible. The kinds of surpluses we saw generated on the EI account, which went into ge

Industry committee  I have just a brief comment, Mr. Chair. With respect to infrastructure, we did undertake a survey of U.S. firms to ask what they saw as the impediments or advantages to investing in Canada. Much to our surprise, our terrible infrastructure surfaced as an issue for them. Our roads

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good morning, everyone. This morning I'm actually going to focus on only one aspect of an important issue for Canadian manufacturing, and that's really the issue that's already been touched on by Mr. Murphy: the regulatory regime and the regulatory burd