Natural Resources committee  I was just going to highlight a couple of things. Funding for standards doesn't really fit in normal buckets. There's often money for research and for commercialization, but to build some of those building blocks, when you go and ask people for funding, whether it's industry or government, they say they don't have a program for standards.

Natural Resources committee  It absolutely does, yes. When you're looking at standards, in a lot of cases standards are initiated by industry and for specific purposes. It might be to open new markets, it might be to bring in new innovations, or it could be to comply with regulations more easily. There are many different reasons why you would bring in standards.

Natural Resources committee  Thanks, Kevin. In the near future I think we'll get to slides that are related to the natural resources program. In my group we're looking more on the unconventional oil and gas side. We also look at mining, which also relates to the oil sands, forestry, carbon capture and storage, and water resources.