Thank you very much.
There are a couple of points on that. First, we have two offices. We have an office in St. John's, Newfoundland, where under normal circumstances we have two industrial liaison officers, me, and an executive assistant and secretary. So there are five people in that office. We have an extension office in Bedford, Nova Scotia, where we have one industrial liaison officer. That gentleman is responsible for all of our efforts in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. All the administrative work is done out of St. John's, obviously, to lessen the burden for him.
In terms of going more broadly, we have had some general discussions with the Quebec government on exploring options for the broadening of the centre into Quebec. I've spoken briefly with Minister Lessard and his officials in the past on this. We've also had discussions with the B.C. industry, and we've had strong support from the B.C. industry on broadening our mandate nationally to the west coast, which we'd like to explore as well, and the eastern Arctic. I lived and worked in Nunavut for a period of time, and we've had discussions. There's an interest in taking this centre on a Canadian scale.
We've done some limited work in Quebec. The Quebec industry and government worked with us on the lobster initiative and the lobster round table. We hosted a snow crab workshop in Moncton last year, and the Quebec industry was actively involved in that, as well as government officials. We actually submitted a proposal to ACOA three years ago through the Atlantic Innovation Fund. We wanted to broaden our mandate--50% of our R and D into the Maritimes--and we were going to open a bilingual office in Moncton. The hope was that this might be a catalyst to expand into the Quebec region. Obviously, that hasn't happened yet. We've been of the opinion that we have to get our base in Atlantic Canada secure before we can broaden our mandate into other regions. But it's something we would love to do as a centre, broaden it, because there is support for it amongst industry from a broader scale. Those that have been introduced to us in the last couple of years see great merit in this work outside of Atlantic Canada.
I'm not sure if that answers your question.