Through you, Mr. Chair, the equipment that is designed, manufactured and purchased from Sinclair Technologies, located in Aurora, Ontario, as described, is essentially made of a tin can that has a series of rods and some coaxial cables. It is designed to optimize our telecommunications and encrypted radio system—our push two-way talk system.
It essentially maximizes the frontline members who are using the radio system. It filters out other frequencies, so that the main frequency of the RCMP channel is not interfered with and there's no actual impact on our operations.
It is installed by RCMP radio technicians. It's installed on our towers and/or towers across our nation, coast to coast to coast. Again, it is a device, a piece of equipment, that has no access to any RCMP system. It's essentially a device that filters out other systems. It's commonly used in communication and broadcast equipment and no different from the towers that we use.
Again, there is no computer encryption within it. There are no systems within it. There is no manipulation within it. We actually control that piece of equipment.