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House Hansard - 242

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 30, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 242 - Oct/30/23
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Oct/30/23 1:18:02 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-34 
Madam Speaker, unfortunately, I missed the first part of the member's speech, so I hope he forgives me if he mentioned this. The member sits on the science and research committee with me, which is looking into situations like this, where intellectual property and industry is leaving Canada because of foreign takeovers. I have talked to companies in the hydrogen tech sector, where, when they get to a certain size, they need some investment to expand to the next stage and the investment almost always comes from abroad, so the technology goes to China, the United States or Germany. I wonder if the member could comment on that process and how this legislation could help that or what the government could do to help keep those technologies in Canada.
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Context: House Hansard - 242 - Oct/30/23
Mr. Chandra Arya (Nepean, Lib.)
  • Oct/30/23 2:03:19 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, a very successful technology entrepreneur, Marc Andreessen, recently published “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto”, which I believe every policy-maker should read. He is the same person who wrote “Why Software is Eating the World” in 2011, in which he foresaw the digital disruption that has since unfolded, underscoring the significance of software in redefining industries and shaping the contemporary business landscape. In the manifesto he states, “there is no material problem—whether created by nature or by technology—that cannot be solved with more technology.... Our civilization was built on a spirit of discovery, of exploration, of industrialization”. He concludes with this: We owe the past, and the future. It is time, once again, to raise the technology flag. It is time to be Techno-Optimists. It's time to build.
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