Committee
Consult the user guide
For assistance, please contact us
Consult the user guide
For assistance, please contact us
Add search criteria
Results: 16 - 30 of 161
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Okay, great.
Ms. Materi, I was really interested in your reference a moment ago to the Asian infrastructure bank. As you know, Canada is not a member. Should we be?
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Okay, thank you very much.
I just have a final question for our three witnesses who are here.
We heard some really interesting testimony from an entrepreneur from British Columbia. As a woman starting her own company, she said she was surprised to discover she had greater problems getting access to capital than she would have done had she been a man.
To our three women witnesses, have any of you experienced that? Do you have any ideas on what we can do to help?
Ms. Jackowetz, you look—
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
You've seen how excited my colleague Murray is to have the great Victoria companies. Since I'm the MP for Toronto Centre, I'm going to start with the Toronto companies. It's great to have great entrepreneurs from Toronto here too.
Mr. Bar-Ziv, I thought your points about trade being a global competition were extremely well made, and you clearly have experience, not only in this current company, but in your past life, as you put it. Based on that experience, what are a couple of the best practices that you've seen from other countries in supporting their entrepreneurs in global trade that we should be doing? Is there something you've seen Israel doing? Is there something you've seen the U.S. doing? I don't know, maybe Finland is great at it.
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Okay, and you think we're not doing that enough now?
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Now to make that work, you've cited the Israeli example. Something Israel has been very good at is a cluster strategy and something sort of similar to what Glen was talking about, but really focusing on what it sees as the country's core strengths and building out from there.
Do you think Canada needs to do that? Are we in danger of sort of spreading the peanut butter too thin across too many different areas?
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Thank you.
Dr. Laslo-Baker, I was interested in everything you had to say. I have small kids too and I'm going to yell at them when I get home for not inspiring me to found a brilliant, successful company. In particular regarding your point about the difficulties that small trading companies can have getting credit, I'd like to ask you not so much about the government side of things but how you feel about the attitude of Canadian banks. We've heard from other witnesses at the committee that they feel that maybe those conservative lending practices that served us quite well in 2008 aren't so fabulous if you're an entrepreneur, especially one doing international trade. Has that been your experience?
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Sorry, Ms. Grewal, we've hit five minutes. Is that okay?
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much.
As you may have noticed, Randy has transformed himself. He had to step away, so he's asked me to be your chair for the last 45 minutes. Randy and I share an intense interest in farm implements and their trade into eastern Europe.
Next up is Murray Rankin for five minutes.
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
We're going to have to leave it there, and thank you for that excellent question.
I'm going to allow myself some editorial comment. I also thought that was an excellent report by the Conference Board. Thank you for that hard work.
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Okay. We heard it here first.
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Mr. Allen, you have five minutes.
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Should we let Mr. Stebbins follow up?
An hon. member: Yes.
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Chrystia Freeland): Please, Mr. Stebbins, go for it.
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Thank you for those great questions. I think we're all especially grateful that you followed up on the women and banking comment that we were all very interested in.
Mr. Carrie, the floor is yours for five minutes.
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
You have 45 seconds left.
Collapse
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Okay. That's a nice note on which to end your five minutes, isn't it?
Okay, Ms. Liu, please.
Collapse
Results: 16 - 30 of 161 | Page: 2 of 11

|<
<
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
>
>|
Export As: XML CSV RSS

For more data options, please see Open Data