Thank you to the witnesses for coming here, and some from a long way away. I appreciate that we only see you for a short period and that there's a lot that goes on before you come here as well. Thanks for preparing the presentations and being here.
I'm going to build a bit on what Mr. Lobb was leaning toward in terms of the north.
This is maybe a very specific application, but as an example, we have a company in Guelph that's developed a water treatment application for the mining industry. It's brand new technology that puts water treatment units into shipping containers, which can then hopefully help first nations. It's located in Guelph, and funding might be coming from Guelph. As one example, this could span both the mining and the aboriginal communities in the north, and also develop jobs in southern Ontario.
On the collaboration, co-operation, and sharing of information, I believe there's a new umbrella unit where you collaborate with each other. Am I mistaken on that?
If I took this opportunity to you through southern Ontario, how could we develop it for the local businesses in the north and in the mining industry?