Thank you.
Thank you, gentlemen. I would like to welcome you to Canada. I understand you're both American citizens, so thank you for coming before our committee.
Along the lines of my colleague's remarks on exporting anything out of Canada's control, with or without an export permit, I gather you need approval of some kind. I will put it this way: just before the sale of MDA was announced, MDA actually purchased Alliance Spacesystems in the U.S. It is along the lines of advanced technology solutions, and it also deals with robotic mechanical structures. The statement made by the vice-president basically went like this: “This acquisition significantly enhances our U.S. presence, and will provide a capable conduit to leverage and offer our world class space robotics and space surveillance solutions into the U.S. civilian and military aerospace markets”.
How does that conduit apply, now that there is an MDA subsidiary in the U.S.? So you have your apparent company as this, and there's already this other entity that was created just before the sale was announced.