Finance committee  There's no cap in the province of Ontario. The provinces of B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Quebec all have caps for their programs.

Finance committee  They are provincial programs that have been put in place, because this is a matching program with the provinces. In the province of Ontario, because it's been declining for the last number of years, it hasn't been too great an issue. As I said in my brief, if we were to see a su

Finance committee  I think we will see some rebound in Ontario, but nowhere close to what it was at its maximum. Our estimate in Ontario--and we also operate there--would be that we might see maybe $50 million to $100 million more investment. At that point, I would expect that the federal governmen

Finance committee  Thank you. The investments we make are the highest-risk investments of new companies, so we're at the very front end of generating new companies into the economy and trying to expand those economies. In terms of a cost-benefit analysis, four studies have been done across the cou

Finance committee  There are a couple of interesting things to note. I can talk a little bit about Crocus because our company in the province is trying to provide them with solutions. The first thing to understand about Crocus is that a unique set of circumstances ended up creating the political an

Finance committee  Thank you. This will be my speed reading course. Thank you for allowing me to speak to you this morning about an important issue in the economic development of British Columbia. I'm here simply to ask for one thing, which is an increase in the “ticket size”, as we call it—the am