INDU Committee News Release
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STANDING COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRY NEWS RELEASE Industry Committee Presents Major Report FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, April 11, 2000 – In a major report presented today in the House of Commons, the Standing Committee on Industry proposes new industrial policies that will successfully take Canada from its industrial past to the globalized and innovative society of the future. Committee Chair Susan Whelan, M.P. (Liberal-Essex) stated that the report entitled: Productivity and Innovation: A Competitive and Prosperous Canada, "makes recommendations that will better prepare Canadians and Canadian businesses for the opportunities and challenges of a knowledge based economy." "The Committee has taken up the challenge of charting a new economic course for Canada," Ms. Whelan continued, and has proposed a broad productivity agenda, including an innovation component, "that will establish a solid industrial policy framework for a knowledge based economy on which to sustain a prosperous country." Key recommendations in the report include:
"The Committee's primary objective," concluded Ms. Whelan, "is to provide the Government of Canada with guidance on industrial policies that will boost the nation's productivity, innovation and international competitiveness." - 30 - For further information, please contact:
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