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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Walker, I'd like to follow up on one fact you mentioned in your presentation. You said something about 17% of consumers not trusting manufacturers.
Can you elaborate on that. Where does that come from?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much.
Do I still have time, Mr. Chair?
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Lib. (ON)
Ms. Ramji, thank you very much. I'll talk fast, and I'll ask you to answer quickly too if you can.
I appreciated very much your specific recommendation about expanding the Dose of Valley program. Are there specific cities in India, China, Europe, or Brazil you think we should focus on?
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Lib. (ON)
Super quickly, last question.
Jim Balsillie has complained in public and to me that a problem with the Canadian start-up universe is that as soon as great companies like yours get founded in Canada and show success and start to scale up, they get bought up by the Googles and the Facebooks of the world, and that we don't really create Canadian digital champions.
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Lib. (ON)
Is that going to happen to you guys, and how can we stop it from happening?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'd like to start with Mr. Lang.
I won't ask you to brag about your great west coast weather. I have my dad visiting from Alberta this week, and I've already heard enough western bragging about our terrible climate.
I was really interested in the point you made about the difficulty in commercializing our research in Canada. That's something I hear about a lot. Can you talk more specifically about what we're not getting right in that space and what we could be doing to do it better?
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Lib. (ON)
In your experience, which country, or maybe which cluster of universities, really gets this right? Is there a best practice that we should be following?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much, Mr. Lang.
I'd like to ask Mr. Reynolds a couple of questions.
What share of your business is done with the United States?
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Lib. (ON)
How effective is NAFTA for you? Do you feel that for your U.S. customers, doing business with you is essentially the same as it would be with a U.S. company, or are there still some barriers? Is it a little bit harder for you than it would be if you were across the border?
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Lib. (ON)
Do you think we're going to be seeing any impact from companies like yours? We talk a lot about the impact of the weaker dollar.
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Lib. (ON)
So you can take more days off now?
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Lib. (ON)
You spoke very specifically, Mr. Reynolds, about how to hit some of the goals we have on getting small and medium-sized enterprises more involved in exporting and in trade. There's going to have to be an expansion of the resources available to them. It's clear that you've thought a lot about this. Do you have a specific sense of how many additional resources and what kind we need?
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Lib. (ON)
You can just say a number.
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Lib. (ON)
Colleagues, can we begin? I think we have a quorum now.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the study of the positive effects—and maybe not only positive effects—of the global markets action plan.
I'm delighted that we have such excellent witnesses speaking to us today. We're going to start with Andy Gibbons who is the director of government relations for WestJet.
Thanks for being here, Mr. Gibbons. We'll give you ten minutes to begin and then we'll ask you many brilliant and inspired questions.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much, Mr. Gibbons. You were exactly on time. You and your team did an excellent job.
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Lib. (ON)
You were three seconds over. That's pretty impressive.
We have one more witness. We are now going to hear from Mr. Mike Darch of the Consider Canada City Alliance. He's joining us by video conference from Miami, which I'm sure is much warmer than here.
Thank you very much for joining us, Mr. Darch.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much, Mr. Darch, for a really interesting presentation, exactly on time.
On a personal note, thank you for not lording it over us too much with the excellent weather I'm sure you're going to enjoy later this afternoon.
We'll now go to questions, gentlemen. Your first questions will come from Ms. Laurin Liu, please.
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Lib. (ON)
Okay. Mr. Gibbons, you have about 30 seconds to answer
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Lib. (ON)
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Now we will hear from Mr. Mike Allen, please.
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Darch, I'm so sorry. Can you just wrap up your sentence because we've gone over the time.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much.
I would like to ask the indulgence of my colleagues on the committee. It is normally the Liberals' turn to ask questions for five minutes. If anyone would like to pose as a Liberal, we could do that. But it might cause fewer problems to have me do it.
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Lib. (ON)
I was teasing.
We'll time me strictly, and I'd like to start with a question for both Mr. Gibbons and Mr. Darch. We've heard in other testimony to the committee some concerns about CATSA, and some real concerns about how while there may be a bottleneck now, it could become more acute in the summer, and about how there are some funding issues.
I see you nodding, Mr. Gibbons. What are your thoughts about that?
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Lib. (ON)
What is the issue?
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Lib. (ON)
You said it's not this and it's not that. What's your concern and what could we as a committee try to do about it?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you.
Mr. Darch, do you want to add anything to that?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you.
Mr. Gibbons, you emphasized in your testimony that WestJet does its heavy maintenance in Canada. Can you talk a little bit about why you've made that decision, and whether economically it is making sense for you? Are there any government policies that could encourage other airlines to be doing the same?
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Lib. (ON)
I'm going to cut myself off there just short of five minutes. I think Mr. Cannan has some questions.
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Lib. (ON)
We're going to have to leave it there, Mr. Cannan. I'm sorry.
Thank you very much, Mr. Gibbons.
We have 10 minutes left to go, so I'm going to suggest that we give Monsieur Morin trois minutes.
Mr. Morin, you have the floor.
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Lib. (ON)
Okay, we're going to have to leave it there.
Merci, monsieur Morin.
Thank you very much, Mr. Gibbons and Mr. Darch.
Mr. Darch, I hope the video conferencing experience was great. I know you would have preferred to be here with us.
Thank you both very much for that excellent testimony.
We'll now suspend for a few minutes before our next exciting session.
The meeting is suspended.
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Lib. (ON)
It's 4:30, so we'll resume our committee meeting.
We are going to have the pleasure of hearing from Mr. James Cherry of Aéroports de Montréal, and then Mr. Jerry Staples of the Halifax International Airport Authority.
Mr. Cherry, the floor is yours. You have ten minutes.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much for that testimony, Mr. Cherry.
Now we will hear from Mr. Jerry Staples of the Halifax International Airport Authority.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much, Mr. Staples.
We will now move to questions. We are going to start with Ms. Liu, who has seven minutes.
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Lib. (ON)
Okay.
I'm sorry, Mr. Cherry, and Ms. Liu, you were almost a minute over, so we'll have to leave it there, but thank you very much.
Now we're going to hear from Mr. Gill.
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Lib. (ON)
I'm sorry, Mr. Staples, we have to leave it there. We've almost hit eight minutes.
Thank you very much, Mr. Gill.
May I again ask the indulgence of my fellow members of the committee to ask a couple of questions on behalf of the Liberal Party?
Some hon. members: Agreed.
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Chrystia Freeland): I want to start with you in particular, Mr. Cherry.
You used some strong language in your statement—it's okay, you're surrounded by MPs; we like strong language—talking about airports and the airport industry being a cash cow because of the tax regime.
I would love to get you to expand on that, and also to give us a sense of how it would need to change for you to feel that Canadian airports are competitive, particularly with U.S. airports, which are an option for so many Canadian travellers.
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Lib. (ON)
Would that neutral position for you be just not having to pay rent anymore?
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Lib. (ON)
I saw you nodding your head, Mr. Staples. Do you have a ten-second point you would like to add?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much, gentlemen. We're going to have to leave it there, because I have to be extremely strict with myself.
That was just under five minutes, for the benefit of the rest of the committee.
Now we'll have seven minutes of questions from Ms. Grewal, please.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much, gentlemen.
We've just gone...almost up to eight minutes. I'd like to ask the committee for their shared view. We agreed last week that at the end of today's meeting we would spend 15 minutes instructing our excellent analysts on the report that they now need to write, or perhaps be instructed by them about it.
We could go ahead and do that now, or we could have a few more questions. What's the view?
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Lib. (ON)
But would we like to do one more round of questioning or go straight to the report?
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Lib. (ON)
Okay. We wouldn't get to me anyway, so that's okay with me too.
Thank you very much, Mr. Cherry and Mr. Staples, for fascinating testimony. We really appreciate your time.
Our meeting is now suspended, and we will go in camera.
[Proceedings continue in camera]
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much, and thank you, Ms. Campbell and Mr. Myers, for some great presentations.
I'd like to start with Ms. Campbell and pick up on your China point. I have two questions about China. What would it take to conclude exactly that sort of bilateral agreement, and to what extent is the lack of a reciprocal 10-year visa deal, like the one the U.S. has with China, an obstacle to Canada doing business?
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Lib. (ON)
Sorry to interrupt, but it's great to have a woman witness. We should make a point of having more of those.
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Lib. (ON)
I saw you nodding, Mr. Myers, as I asked about China. I'd like to give you a chance to pitch in. In particular if Canada were to get to a bilateral agreement with China ahead of the United States would the companies you represent see that as a competitive advantage for them?
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Lib. (ON)
We have 60 seconds left. Ms. Campbell, I was really struck by your emphasis on the U.S. trade relationship and describing it as primordial; great adjective.
You talked about Buy America, which I think is a real issue for a lot of us. I'm happy for Mr. Myers to take this quickly also. What specifically should we be doing to get past that?
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Lib. (ON)
Okay, well thank you very much, Mr. Eng and Ms. McKee, for joining us. I'm the MP for Toronto Centre, so you are incredibly important to my constituents.
Mr. Eng, I hope you're feeling comfortable speaking before this committee because, as it turns out—although neither of us represents Edmonton—your two vice-chairs today both have Edmonton roots.
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Lib. (ON)
So, we all have that in common.
I thought your presentation was terrific and I really was delighted to hear both your ambitions about Pearson being the premier North American airport and the global context in which you see those ambitions. That is terrific, and it's our responsibility to do everything we can to help you.
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Lib. (ON)
I'd like to start with a very specific question. We heard from Calgary airport some concerns about CATSA and real concerns that the airport was building up the infrastructure to move, in a hassle-free and quick way, lots of business travellers, but that CATSA staffing was simply not up to it. We heard real concerns about underfunding of CATSA and, in particular, that we're going to hit a bottleneck in the summer. Does that ring true to your experience?
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Lib. (ON)
Of these bottlenecks that you've referred to, which is the biggest problem for you? What should we be focusing on to try to help fix this for you?
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Lib. (ON)
We have 30 seconds, so a quick question. Given your Hong Kong experience, what can we do to improve especially business connections with China?
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, could I follow the fine example of Mr. Davies and ask two really short questions?
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Lib. (ON)
Okay, thanks.
Starting with Mr. Gooch, thank you very much for your excellent presentation.
We heard from Mr. Poirier about China being a very important market. What impact does the lack of a U.S.-style, reciprocal, 10-year visa arrangement have? Is that something which we're seeing limiting the amount of tourism and business travel between Canada and China?
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Lib. (ON)
Will we see these witnesses again?
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Lib. (ON)
Can we say thank you?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you, gentlemen. They were great presentations even though the time was limited.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you, Mr. Vanstone, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Waugh for coming to speak with us today.
I should inform the committee that I actually work for Mr. Vanstone. He's my constituent in Toronto Centre.
I want to start by asking Mr. Vanstone and Mr. Williams a macro question.
I'd like to hear from you on the two big things we're seeing in the macro environment and what impact the falling Canadian dollar and the falling price of oil are having on your businesses.
Mr. Vanstone, I know that Air Canada in its latest earnings report spoke about the hit it took in the last quarter of the fiscal year because of the Canadian dollar. I imagine that the low price of oil is helping you on the upside.
To help form a picture of where the Canadian economy is, I'd love to hear from both of you about the impact of these two things.
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Lib. (ON)
I have a quick follow-up question.
Do you have any sense right now of how it's netting out? Is it more upside or more downside?
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Lib. (ON)
Mr. Vanstone, are you experiencing the same fall-off in business particularly in western Canada that Mr. Williams spoke about?
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Lib. (ON)
Yes, but not everybody lives in the Okanagan.
Mr. Vanstone, you made a couple of really interesting comments about further liberalization and some of the potential downsides. In particular, you cited the medium-term Australian experience as being negative in that regard. I was really fascinated by that.
Could you expand on that a bit?
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