My name is David Roberts, and I'm the manager of Terra Services Incorporated.
We are part of an indigenous group ourselves. It's a joint venture of Terra Services Inc. and Patey's Safety and Industrial Ltd. of Newfoundland.
We have current supply arrangements with the Government of Canada for small vessel recycling. We've been doing that for the past couple of years. We have a couple of issues that maybe we can get help with.
One of them would be the funding part. We are interested in getting more information on the funding issue, especially with the equal funding from the west and east coast. There are also some issues with obtaining clarifications on becoming eligible recipients to work with the Government of Canada and other parts of the small vessel recycling. This refers to the indigenous groups.
The current wording in the Government of Canada's business legislation is about indigenous companies and indigenous groups. I'm here today asking for that to be changed to “indigenous group/company as being registered in the Indigenous Business Directory of Canada”. That would enable us to take a much greater part in the vessel recycling aspect with the Government of Canada and their efforts to get this done.
A lot of the issues we have with the Government of Canada are with the wording of a lot of these regulations we have. It may have to be tweaked a bit to enable different companies, especially the indigenous companies, to avail themselves of what's out there and what's available to us. That's my biggest concern, and we can talk about that if you like.
That is the gist of it—the funding aspect and getting our name and indigenous group qualified to take part in all of these projects that the Government of Canada has.
Thanks.