Thanks, gentlemen, for being here this afternoon to share a little bit of your perspectives from the west coast.
As the member of Parliament for Kelowna—Lake Country in the interior of British Columbia, I appreciate the history of Ballard fuel systems. It's something I've been following for a number of years. I spent nine years on the Kelowna city council and have spent just over eight years now as a federal MP.
We briefly chatted before the meeting started, Mr. Kassam, and remembered when Arnold Schwarzenegger and Premier Gordon Campbell connected with the change of the torch and were going to develop a hydrogen highway and all those future exciting opportunities. Unfortunately, that didn't materialize. Still, some of your technology, as you said, has been exported worldwide, and with the TPP you feel that the three points you mentioned will provide additional opportunities.
Do you think there is some potential for growth in employment prospects here, or will that work be transferred abroad to other countries?