I'll address Kelowna and then the broader one. Unfortunately Vancouver couldn't attend so I was representing Vancouver. That's how I knew about Kelowna.
In Amsterdam, I was approached by a couple who are professionals, who have just received their permanent resident status in Canada. It's their intention to move to the Kelowna area to either purchase or invest in a retirement home. Their specific area of interest is psycho-geriatric diseases so they were looking at retirement or nursing homes related to that. That's a specific investment they were interested in.
We deal more with specifics than generalities. If you want to look at some of the industries that were talking to us, certainly there were a lot of engineering and construction companies that are specifically interested in the activity taking place in the oil fields, the LNG facilities going into B.C., mining, etc. There were also a large number of companies in research and development. The Canadian research and development tax credit system is far better than the European system. They were looking to move activity here.
Certainly Bruce can attest to the advantages here since Ericsson has recently announced major expansions to its facility here in Kanata, as well as its facility in Montreal.
So companies that were coming and looking were actually across a fairly broad cross-section. A number were interested in both Halifax and Vancouver because of the relatively low amount of activity in the navy-type activity in Europe. They were looking at our ship rebuild programs taking place on both coasts.