Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'd like to thank our witnesses today, and I'll start off with Stephen Laskowski, a good Ukrainian name.
I really like the recommendations with which you came forward. A few years back, I wrote a safety program for a major trucking company in northern B.C., and what you said was so true regarding the cancellation of the default devices. That had a big impact on the industry in those first few years we brought those trucks in.
They would break down outside of town, go into limp mode, and then you'd be so far out, you couldn't get back, because the limp mode would run out. Then there's the cost of towing. Even the manufacturers couldn't figure out what was wrong with the trucks. Oftentimes you had to hook their computers into the dealership computers, and it would take months for the truck to get repaired. I like what you put in there.
In 2012, the Conservative government put a program in place. I wonder if you remember it. It was called the ecoTECHNOLOGY program. We invested $38 million over a four- to five-year period, I believe, to help offset the costs of the new technology and equipment.
Is this program still in place, and did it work well for you folks?