INDU Committee News Release
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NEWS
RELEASE
The House
of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology Tables
Interim Report on the Challenges Facing the Canadian Manufacturing Sector.
Ottawa, June 21, 2006 - The House of Commons Standing
Committee on Industry, Science and Technology tabled in Parliament today the
Committee’s interim report on the challenges facing the Canadian manufacturing
sector.
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The Committee began its study of the challenges
facing the manufacturing sector in May 2006, with the aim of providing specific
recommendations to the Government of Canada on how it can help the sector adapt
to its challenges. Although the Committee intends to continue its study when
Parliament resumes sitting in the fall, the Committee believes that it is
important at this time to table an interim report, entitled Challenges Facing
the Canadian Manufacturing Sector, so that the federal government is made aware
of both the difficulties confronting the sector and solutions proposed by
witnesses who have appeared to date.
“The proposed solutions submitted by witnesses
covered a number of areas of federal public policy, including monetary,
taxation, international and inter-provincial trade, labour
skills, industrial and regulatory policy, as well as Canada’s energy framework”
said Mr. Rajotte.
The Committee believes that these suggested
solutions, along with others forthcoming in the fall, will provide ample
options for it to consider as recommendations to the Government of Canada in
its final report.
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