Finance committee  Thank you for that, Mrs. Block. The first thing about new investment or investment in new technologies is that typically the new technologies that are being deployed, whether they're being deployed in a mine or a foundry or whatever the industry might be, use a cleaner technolog

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  The members of the Canadian Manufacturing Coalition, which includes a couple of members around this table, certainly appreciated that. I think Jay Myers at the CME has more recent information about that. Ron, you might be able to comment about the specific investments that hav

Finance committee  Thank you for that, Mr. Menzies. As you mentioned, there is some incredible technology developed in western Canada. A number of Canadian companies were confronted with this problem, not only MacDon, with the headers on the combines, but also a couple of Saskatchewan companies th

Finance committee  Yes, Bourgault. There were two Saskatchewan-based companies that were affected.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, members of the committee, and staff, for providing the Association of Equipment Manufacturers with the opportunity to address you this morning. Allow me first to say a few words about the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. AEM is a trade association r

Finance committee  That's a good question. It was brought to the attention of the committee by the Canada West Equipment Dealers Association when the committee was in Calgary, I think, or Saskatoon. I'm not sure which city it was. We understand there's an agreement in principle that this is a good

Finance committee  No. After Textron left that business, nobody has come back in. Bear in mind that a lot of equipment would be financed by the majors, like CNH and the John Deere Capital Corporation. So the majors would be financing their dealers, but the short-line manufacturers, such as MacDon I

Finance committee  I don't think so. What we're looking at, simply—and this would also be for construction equipment and other utility, mining, and forestry equipment as well—is putting our equipment depreciation rates here in Canada in line with the new five-year rule in the United States for simi

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, and thank you to members of the committee and staff for providing the Association of Equipment Manufacturers with the opportunity to address you today. Allow me first to say a few words about the members of the Association of Equipment Manu

Agriculture committee  Yes, and the other thing we picked up from those people who were over there last week is that the government has made it very clear to buyers of agricultural equipment that the banks will only finance equipment that was made in Russia. It's not written down anywhere, but it's a v

Agriculture committee  I think you hit the nail on the head. The demand is huge in that country. The opportunity for Canadian manufacturers, especially like the company that's in your own riding, is tremendous. So here is an untapped potential, and yet the domestic market is not going to be able to sup

Agriculture committee  One thing the members of the committee can do is speak to the Minister of International Trade, who is going to be meeting with his Russian counterpart three weeks from today, and put this on as an issue to be addressed between the two ministers. That would be of great help. I'm s

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon, and thank you, Mr. Chair, for allowing me to address the committee today. I want to be brief in my comments. But first let me say a few words about the members of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. AEM is the trade association representing manufacturers

Agriculture committee  I've done some preliminary research into that, and I actually do have some numbers I can share with the committee. I'd be pleased to do that. I can't recall exactly what the number is, but I've done some research into that.