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Committee Evidence - CIIT-57
2015-05-04
Randy Hoback - 16:15
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-05-04 16:15
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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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Exports
Information collection
Small and medium-sized enterprises
Corinne Pohlmann - 16:15
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-05-04 16:17
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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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Exports
Information collection
Small and medium-sized enterprises
Joy Nott - 16:17
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-05-04 16:18
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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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Exports
Information collection
Small and medium-sized enterprises
Philip Turi - 16:18
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-05-04 16:19
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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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Exports
Small and medium-sized enterprises
Joy Nott - 16:20
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Committee Evidence - CIIT-55
2015-04-27
Don Davies - 16:18
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-27 16:18
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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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Small and medium-sized enterprises
Brandon Hall - 16:19
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-27 16:20
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Would anyone else like to comment?
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Denis Leclerc - 16:20
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-27 16:22
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Can I ask one more question, or am I out of time?
As I still have a bit of time left, I have a question for Mr. Letenneur.
You are active in Asia. Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, an important element for you?
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Trans-Pacific Partnership
Nicolas Letenneur - 16:22
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-27 16:23
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How would Canada's non-participation in the TPP agreement affect you? Would it be a problem?
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Trans-Pacific Partnership
Nicolas Letenneur - 16:23
Don Davies - 17:16
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-27 17:16
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Thank you very much.
I wanted to start with Mr. Hall and make a request of our analyst. I thought his point about having paired advisers was really interesting and may be a specific point that might be something we can agree on. I wanted to ask you to make a special note of that and to thank Mr. Hall for making that point.
Another really specific comment we've heard from other witnesses has been that businesspeople who are actively involved in trade find the fact that you can't get a second Canadian passport—which is something that businesspeople in other countries can do—to sometimes be a problem; and that when you're applying for a visa from a country where it takes a long time, it would be convenient to have a second passport. Is that an issue that any of you have encountered?
Mr. Hall?
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Brandon Hall - 17:17
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-27 17:17
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Okay. I guess you guys don't travel to the countries where it's really hard to get a visa.
I wanted to ask also about this issue of clean tech.
What you said about the carbon market and the importance of having an array of clean technologies was very interesting.
Will Ontario's participation in the carbon market be an opportunity to create an array of clean technologies with other provinces?
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International trade
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Denis Leclerc - 17:17
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-27 17:18
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You referred to Scandinavia, Germany and China, where there is a lot of innovation in the area of clean technologies.
Is it too late for Canada? Will it be possible to do that here?
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Exports
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Guy Drouin - 17:18
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-27 17:20
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British Columbia and Alberta chose another system. Will it be possible to have an array of clean technologies with that approach?
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Guy Drouin - 17:20
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Committee Evidence - CIIT-54
2015-04-22
Randy Hoback - 16:18
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-22 16:18
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Thank you very much.
Thank you very much to our witnesses, including our witness who is joining us long distance. It has been really valuable for the committee to hear directly from people running businesses.
Ms. Bak, I was really interested in the comment in your presentation about Canada being invited for years to second technical experts to the World Bank. Can you explain a little more what that invitation has been and why you think it is so important that we do it but haven't been doing it so far?
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Céline Bak - 16:19
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-22 16:20
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Thank you very much for that. I know our analysts were listening. I think that would be a good specific point to raise.
I was also really interested in your reference to the fact that a lack of a clear national environmental strategy means that Canada has been losing out on specific agreements, like the U.S.-Mexico deal. Again, I wonder if you could elaborate on that a little. Where, in your view, should Canada have been and what have we lost?
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Céline Bak - 16:20
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-22 16:21
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Do I have time for one more question, Mr. Chair?
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Randy Hoback - 16:21
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-22 16:21
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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?
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Asia
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Small and medium-sized enterprises
Ramona Materi - 16:21
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-22 16:22
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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—
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Randy Hoback - 16:23
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Committee Evidence - CIIT-53
2015-04-20
Randy Hoback - 16:16
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:16
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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.
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International trade
Small and medium-sized enterprises
Gali Bar-Ziv - 16:17
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:19
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Okay, and you think we're not doing that enough now?
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Gali Bar-Ziv - 16:19
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:19
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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?
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Industrial clusters
Small and medium-sized enterprises
Gali Bar-Ziv - 16:20
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:20
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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?
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Banks and banking
Loans
Small and medium-sized enterprises
Dionne Laslo-Baker - 16:21
Nina Grewal - 16:39
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:39
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Sorry, Ms. Grewal, we've hit five minutes. Is that okay?
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Nina Grewal - 16:39
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:39
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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.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises
Murray Rankin - 16:39
Murray Rankin - 16:45
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:45
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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.
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Glen Hodgson - 16:45
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:45
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Okay. We heard it here first.
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Glen Hodgson - 16:45
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:45
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Mr. Allen, you have five minutes.
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Mike Allen - 16:45
Mike Allen - 16:50
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:50
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Should we let Mr. Stebbins follow up?
An hon. member: Yes.
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Chrystia Freeland): Please, Mr. Stebbins, go for it.
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Shawn Stebbins - 16:51
Mike Allen - 16:52
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:53
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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.
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Colin Carrie - 16:53
Glen Hodgson - 16:55
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:57
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You have 45 seconds left.
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Colin Carrie - 16:57
Glen Hodgson - 16:57
Lib. (ON)
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Toronto Centre)
2015-04-20 16:58
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Okay. That's a nice note on which to end your five minutes, isn't it?
Okay, Ms. Liu, please.
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Laurin Liu - 16:58
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