I could, but I didn't bring any cartridges.
Brookfield told us there are government regulations that apply to all these federal government buildings, whereby they have to be tested every 30 days by something called bacterial culture—you know, in petri dishes, as in high school biology. Brookfield told us that they know the petri dish approach takes two weeks and is not very accurate. They wanted a DNA test that was possible to undertake on site rather than by sending it off to a lab, so we made it for them.
Then they walked us into Public Works and Procurement Canada, and public works—who sets the standard—said to us, “This is exactly what we've been waiting for for years. We always knew that culture testing sucked. Finally, here's the technology we want.” Then they said there's a thing called BCIP that would be perfect for funding the definitive scientific study to show how good DNA testing is vis-à-vis culture testing.
PWPS told us they've been wanting to fund this study for years, but they don't have the budget themselves, so BCIP allowed them to do it. Thus $500,000 has now funded, over 12 weeks, 51 cooling towers in Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal. The results are about to be released in a few weeks, and I can tell you they are explosive. It's coming, then, but I can't tell you what the results are.
What is happening now is that DNA testing is going to become the standard for testing every office building, hospital, school, shopping mall—every building that has a major air conditioner. We're talking about a multi-billion-dollar global export opportunity, and it's going to be driven by standards, because people don't want to die, especially public sector employees. They care about the quality of the buildings they work in.
Public Works and Procurement Services, for example, has asked us to help them update the standard. It's going to apply to all the government buildings. It's going to be released probably in January or February. We're now talking with the Standards Council of Canada and commercial real estate guys. It's probably going to be rolled out across the world.
We find BCIP was an amazing success for us. If it didn't exist, we wouldn't have this billion-dollar opportunity in which we're probably going to be the world leader. It's going to be incredible.
The thing we're finding now concerns what happens after BCIP. We'll probably be able to engage a government relations firm that's going to help us on the procurement side, because to navigate all the acronyms and who we talk to, such as Treasury Board.... We're just learning all this for the first time.
That would be our one suggestion. After companies graduate out of the BCIP, how do we get help on procurement to roll it out in Canada to every province and municipality, worldwide, to New York—all that stuff?
Thank you.