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[Light instrumental background music]
Text on screen: [Day on the Hill, October 23, 2012 - Association of Universities and
Colleges of Canada logo]
Kunal Gupta, CEO, Polar Mobile:
Going through university we started our company at the end of our university career.
Now we're an employer sitting on the other side and access to talent has been critical
for our business and the growth of our business.
And we are looking to universities to continue to train, educate and inspire that next generation
of talent that's going to come and work for companies like ours.
[Light instrumental background music]
[Imagery of spokes, brain with moving cirles]
Text on screen: [Putting ideas to work for Canadians. Des idées au travail pour les
Canadiens]
Paul Davidson, president, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada:
It's been a phenomenal day. We have about 65 presidents meeting all over Parliament
Hill and again with senior public servants.
We put them together in groups so that the elected Member of Parliament gets a perspective
from right across the country.
Meetings range from cabinet ministers to committee chairs talking about issues that matter to
them.
It's not about us broadcasting our message, but engaging in a conversation that talks
about how Canada's universities contribute to a new kind of Canada.
Heather Munroe-Blum, principal, McGill University:
This Day on the Hill experience is simply fantastic.
What a great opportunity to bring together people from government, from industry, from
other organizations in civil society, the diplomatic core has been participating, students
and university presidents and rectors to talk about how we put the great ideas and the talent
of a university to work in service of our communities, local communities and country
as a whole.
While Heather Munroe-Blum is speaking:
[University of Calgary president Elizabeth Cannon outside with two individuals on Parliament
Hill.]
[David Barnard, president, University of Manitoba, and other university presidents in a meeting.]
At the heart of the university mandate rests a vocation, a calling if you will, to contribute
to the creation and advancement of knowledge in order to make a positive difference in
our World.
Our mandate could not be more relevant to Canada's prosperity than it is right now.
While Stephen Toope is speaking:
[Group of university presidents clap while listening to a speaker.]
[Aerial shot of university presidents seated at tables listening to AUCC president Paul
Davidson.]
Mike Ashar, CEO, Irving Oil:
The only way we can win, the only way is through our people, and our people cannot just be
5 or 10 percent better, they have to be much better.
And can't be two or three or four superstars. It's all employees and we're lucky that we
have institutions like UNB and St.Thomas, local institutions that can provide us an
education that in my opinion is better than Harvard or Stanford.
While Mike Ashar is speaking:
[MP Peter Braid talks to invited guests.]
[Guy Breton, rector, Université de Montréal, Ray Ivany, president of Acadia University,
Sara Diamond, president of OCAD University, Senator Art Eggleton.]
[MP Peter Braid speaks at podium.]
Heather Munroe-Blum, principal, McGill University:
Partnerships are absolutely critical, both to the quality of what we do within the university,
in education and research. And in the ability of our universities to bring the benefits
of what we do to their civil society, economic progress of the country, on the places of
the country in the world.
While Heather Munroe-Blum is speaking:
[Eddy Campbell, president, University of New Brunswick, Jill Green, Green Technologies
and Kunal Gupta, CEO of Polar Mobile.]
[Kunal Gupta speaks before university presidents.]
[Invited guest and George Iwama, president of University of Northern British Columbia.]
Paul Davidson, president, AUCC:
It's great to have university presidents and university champions from their communities
on Parliament Hill today because there's a real conversation going on.
And one of those things we can see in that conversation is that elected officials from
across the political spectrum, from all political parties, recognize that universities are absolutely
essential to Canada's future.
And that the role universities play in promoting prosperity, and connecting Canada to the world
and in providing excellent education opportunities and research opportunities to Canadians is
going to be critical to Canada's prosperity in the future.
While Paul Davidson is speaking:
[MP Rod Bruinooge at podium.]
[MP Michelle Rempel speaks at podium, Kunal Gupta in the background.]
[University of Alberta researcher Tim Caulfield speaks at podium.]
[Light instrumental background music]
Text on screen: [Putting ideas to work for Canadians - Association of Universities and
Colleges of Canada logo]
Text on screen: [Des idées au travail pour les Canadiens]
[Wheels and spokes move across slide to reside in a brain]