Industry committee  Bob made reference to the fact that we need decisions. The one thing we just can't tolerate any more, not as an industry but collectively, is inaction in the face of a few differences of opinion. What's happened over the years is that the government has failed to act because ther

Industry committee  Dealing with the outward processing issue, I couldn't agree more, and our industry couldn't agree more, that we need to work together with the Canadian apparel industry, because you are our customer base. But as a customer base, you're shrinking in Canada. In 2000, it was almost

Industry committee  We have never moved away from the concept of Canada as a nation helping the poorest countries in the world. In fact, we think that's a good thing. But on the initiative that was put into place, where we think it can be changed is with respect to the rules of origin, because in fa

Industry committee  I would just make the comment that the textile and apparel industries agree on the SR and ED point that this is an important program for the textile industry. We're heavy users of it. There are some interpretive issues as to what constitutes R and D that I think warrant looking a

Industry committee  The idea of outward processing was first raised as a recommendation by our industry during the course of the joint government-industry working group on textiles and apparel, which was several years ago. It was one of our recommendations. We finally got a meeting last March with t