Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to our witnesses.
Captain Patterson, we had a chance to briefly chat before the meeting, and as I mentioned, I represent the Okanagan, Kelowna--Lake Country. You said you have an office in Victoria as well as in St. John's, so you're covered coast to coast in that respect. I commend you for your innovation and your company's continued creativity to use that technology to help oil and gas exploration up the coast.
If you could clarify, in your opening statement you commented that you had screened out on the risk assessment criteria. Maybe you could expand a little bit, say what exactly happened, and your recommendations as to how we could maybe.... The focus of this committee is that we're looking at the small business office and how we can make OSME and the CICP program more flexible and adaptable to utilize those Canadian technologies.
Maybe you could expand on your experience a little more, please.