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Lib. (ON)
We will continue later.
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Lib. (ON)
Okay, but let me, Tracey, just finish this.
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Lib. (ON)
I was glad to have an opportunity to raise it. What I did say to the foreign minister was that this was an issue of great concern to Canadians, and concern particularly to Canadian businesses.
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Lib. (ON)
—Singapore, and Vietnam. We are very pleased to be part of continued discussions among that group. Canada absolutely sees the opportunities in the Asia-Pacific, and we are pursuing them energetically.
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Lib. (ON)
It is very important to appreciate—
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Lib. (ON)
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I wanted to start with Ms. Pohlmann.
I was interested both in the data you assembled and in your comment about the need for data. What could the Government of Canada do to collect better data and how would that be useful?
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Lib. (ON)
I see Ms. Nott and Mr. Turi nodding violently as you're speaking and I saw that when you made your presentation.
Do either of you have anything to add? Any kind of specific recommendation you could make on how the government could collect data better would be useful to us because we can put it in our report.
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Lib. (ON)
Ms. Nott, you may be a statistician, but I think you are a logistician, which I thought was very impressive.
Mr. Turi, do you have anything to add to that?
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Lib. (ON)
Those answers are really fascinating, because the other area I wanted to ask you about is global value chains, global supply chains, and how we're doing at fitting in.
There's an interesting new report, which I'm sure you've seen, from the Institute for Research on Public Policy by Ari Van Assche, specifically about Canadian companies in global value chains. The argument made in this article is that we are not doing a good enough job promoting the kinds of exports that fit into the global value chains and that we need, when we think about export policy, to really understand that it's not only about us making stuff here and sending it somewhere else, but also about being embedded in global supply chains.
My question, to whoever is passionate about this, is this. Do you agree, and what can we do about it?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much.
I would like to thank all of the witnesses for your testimony. I think it's very inspiring for all of us to hear from people who are working so hard to start businesses and employ people.
I also want to comment that it was great for me to hear all of this testimony about the hard work of Canadian diplomats and how they're helping you. We sometimes malign people who work for the Government of Canada as bureaucrats, but we hear from your stories that they're really helping our economy grow.
I want to start with Mr. Hall.
Your story about having to sell out to expand, I think is an all-too-frequent and sad story of what happens to Canadian businesses. We're really smart. We're entrepreneurial. We're hard-working. However, we seem to get to this point in our businesses where as soon as they're really succeeding, we have to sell out.
I'd be interested in your view—and from other witnesses—on what we need to do to create conditions for companies like yours so that you can grow to be the giants and the world-beaters who are acquiring rather than being acquired.
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Lib. (ON)
Would anyone else like to comment?
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