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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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Lib. (ON)
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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Lib. (ON)
How would Canada's non-participation in the TPP agreement affect you? Would it be a problem?
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Lib. (ON)
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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Lib. (ON)
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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Lib. (ON)
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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Lib. (ON)
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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Lib. (ON)
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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Lib. (ON)
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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Lib. (ON)
Do I have time for one more question, Mr. Chair?
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