National Defence committee  Absolutely.

National Defence committee  No, it isn't an SME.

National Defence committee  First of all, with respect to competition, I understand that at the political and ministry levels, there are many agendas that have to be considered when you're deciding to make a large procurement. The main point of our presentation here today is that when those decisions get ma

National Defence committee  Merci, Monsieur Bachand. I cannot speak on behalf of Aero-Montreal, only on behalf of the Quebec Aerospace Association. Primarily our mandate is to respond to the needs of small to medium-sized enterprises. Certainly the aerospace industry in Quebec is built on a strong collabo

National Defence committee  First of all, I'd like to extend the regrets of Madame Dabrowski, the general manager of the AQA, who could not be here today. Mr. Chairman and honourable members, it is a great privilege to be before you today to present the interests and concerns of over 200 SMEs of the Quebe

Industry committee  Regarding your questions with respect to R and D, again, the Quebec Aerospace Association looks at it from the perspective of SME development. The Montreal area or Quebec aerospace industry represents, if not the third, one of the three largest aerospace centres in terms of cit

Industry committee  I'll try to go quickly. The common thread I see running through a lot of this, to touch on it very quickly, is this word that gets thrown around that means something different to everybody, and that's the subject of competitiveness. The aerospace industry has gone through a very

Industry committee  I'll try to leave some time for my colleague as well. With respect to corporate tax structure and budgeting on corporate tax structure, within the Quebec aerospace industry we benefit from a crédit d'impôt for a lot of organizations in terms of research and development and we e

Industry committee  Yes, I want to add a couple more points. On the military procurement, clearly for us, whether it's Boeing, or whether it's Lockheed, as Mr. Boag was saying, what we're looking for from Quebec is, particularly, how did those industrial regional benefits flow down to our SMEs, and

Industry committee  May I have a clarification on what you mean by regulatory barrier?

Industry committee  Yes, I would very briefly. I'm also a successful recipient of TPC. Actually, it was the first amount of money that was put in to develop a Canadian-produced star tracker product with Kel Corporation. I'm familiar with the process and very happy to have that kind of funding avail

Industry committee  Thank you. I'll answer in English. For the first question, as I said earlier, I prefer to break research and development down into four categories: big R, which is fundamental research; small r, which, if you look on a scale of 1 to 10 of technology readiness levels, is getting

Industry committee  Mr. Chairman, distinguished committee members, colleagues and invited guests, it is with great pleasure that I participate in this process as a representative of the Quebec Aerospace Association. The AQA boasts a membership of over 210 members including SMEs, OEMs, institutions