Transport committee  Once again, it all depends. We do continue to do some work at the University of British Columbia, and we do work at some other universities throughout North America. The bulk of our research and development is done at our own facilities for the early research work and the early t

Transport committee  No, we definitely do not stay away from it. Technology Partnerships Canada many years ago was a supporter of Westport. We've returned those dollars and significant returns to the government on that investment. We did one program with Sustainable Development Technology Canada, p

Transport committee  In 2011—I don't have the exact number here—approximately $3 million of a total of $36 million was government money, so funded sources. For example, this money last year partly came from Los Angeles County's South Coast Air Quality Management District, which has a funding progra

Transport committee  We have 871, as of April 30, 2012. But to give you some sense of our scale, we were approximately 200 a little over a year ago.

Transport committee  We are publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ.

Transport committee  Certainly. I mentioned Dr. Phil Hill, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of British Columbia. He came up with the original idea around this injection technology. We were talking about the diesel-natural gas mix.

Transport committee  Absolutely. We have a summary that was read as part of the Manning Innovation Award that Dr. Hill received. It's a two-pager, nice and succinct.

Transport committee  We focus almost entirely on original manufacturing of new vehicles.

Transport committee  At Westport it is our belief that is the superior approach, if only because in the past, natural gas vehicles have had a bit of a tarnished reputation because of the fact that a number of vehicles were deployed throughout North America—and elsewhere in the world, for that matter—

Transport committee  In Europe and in Latin America our light-duty division does focus on personal vehicles, but our emphasis in North America has for some time been large fleet vehicles.

Transport committee  That is where the market is because that is where the single largest opportunity for a market exists. Commercial vehicles are operated as a business asset, and the opportunity for a commercial vehicle operator to realize gain from the use of an asset running on natural gas is qui

Transport committee  It's not something we're involved in. We do involve ourselves in things other than the engine, but mostly on vehicle equipment. As far as home refueling is concerned, it's had a bit of a mixed past, just because of technological challenges. Certainly for the market—

Transport committee  Therein lies the challenge. From an execution point of view, it's not been done so far very well. There remains the challenge with light-duty vehicles that when you add up the number of options for a gasoline vehicle consumer in Canada, you start to run out of fingers and toes v

Transport committee  The more cooperation there is between countries, given the fact that there's no going back from a global economy, and the more we can align intellectual property protection between some of our major trading partners and eventually globally, I think the better we all will be. In

Transport committee  Better cooperation is always helpful. Certainly at the government level, it establishes the ground rules by which companies can then work. I think small and medium-sized enterprises in Canada may be reluctant to go to China for the wrong reasons. The government could play a role