FEDERAL LANDSCAPE: Strategies to Achieve a Positive Outcome.

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FEDERAL LANDSCAPE:Strategies to Achieve a Positive Outcome

Landscape

Parliament’s schedule. New election readiness cycle. Next two budgets. Out of Ottawa.

Landscape

Platforms and Strategies

NDP. Policy – science policy with a

technology policy in development. Target seats/ideological foundations.

Liberals. Policy = foggy. Values

Conservative Approach

Health. Strong publicly funded, universally accessible

healthcare system, founded on the principles of the Canada Health Act = money through existing channels.

Ebola/Family Violence/CIHR. Innovation panel.

Science and Technology. Manufacturing/Waterloo. S&T Strategy redux.

Announcements

Canada Research Excellence Fund. Announced tomorrow at IBM. Managed by SSHRC. Emphasis on partnerships.

Science and Technology Strategy redux.

Conservative Strategy

Tax cuts to family. Run on record. Avoid problem children.

What appeals to the Opposition

NDP Building relationships. Policies strictly in opposition to the

Conservatives. Liberals

Building relationships. Reactivating history and policy victories of

the past. Values in the cities.

What appeals to the CPC

Value propositions. Speech from the

Throne list. Stakeholders and

ethnic communities. Canadian success

stories. Reliable relationships

and photo ops.

Value Propositions

Shipbuilding: How will this investment improve the health of the marine industry in Canada

after the ships have been delivered? Identified university partnership opportunities, small business suppliers as

well as training and development of aboriginal peoples and opportunities for aboriginally-owned businesses.

Jenkins Report: Canada First: Leveraging Defence Procurement Through Key Industrial

Capabilities. Value Proposition favour proposals that deliver economic outcomes

through: a detailed plan complete with deadlines and deliverables; investments that strengthen existing Canadian capabilities; investments that support enhanced productivity or best management

practices (the bottom line); and broader industrial and technological high-value activities, such as intellectual

property, highly skilled labour, technology tranfers and exports/trade.

Questions

Landscape S&T announcement. Canada Research Excellence Fund:

how to leverage the fund. HST rebate – dealing with Finance

Canada. Federal Innovation Panel.