Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I'm entirely forgiving of transgressions, etc.
Good morning to our witnesses.
I have several questions I'd like to embark on. I like the idea of starting with a definition. Both Mr. Fitzgibbons and Dr. Hewitt provided some definition and I liked Dr. Wayner's description of that hockey team. I have a young grandson who I've watched many times playing this season in a house league. You watch 10 little people chasing a puck into a corner and colliding, and everybody is on the ice and nobody is quite sure what to do. So I like the idea of finding a sort of foundational definition that we can work with to help keep us focused as well.
Both Mr. Fitzgibbon and Dr. Hewitt, I thought, took good stabs at that. I come from the car business and I remember back to my days long ago. You would visit the factory and you'd see models cutting clay. We're all very excited about seeing those models today; they're all developed on CAD or CAM today. You never see a clay model or you seldom see a clay model today. What was a seven to 10-year process, today is 24 to 30 months, and maybe even hours in some cases in terms of refinements and whatnot. So I find the definitions of applying these technologies interesting.
I wonder if the two of you could take a minute to expand or help us to synthesize the definition of where you would encourage us to embark.