Thank you, Chair.
Welcome, gentlemen. We appreciate your comments.
My first question is for Monsieur Lajeunesse. We get it, as a committee, and we've heard from you and your organization talking about the IRBs. The concern that I recall hearing was that you like the IRB program, but the real problem is that you're not getting the value-added stuff. There is no mechanism to ensure that you're getting the high end that makes more money for you and helps develop the industry. If we can't get that in smaller contracts, perhaps less sophisticated ones, how can we have the kind of confidence that I'm hearing from you all when we're talking about this open-ended field here where we have no guarantees at all, and yet we're committed to spending considerable amounts of public money?
There seems to be a bit of a disconnect in the theory here. I recognize the opportunity and it's exciting if you're there to pounce on it, but there's no guarantee of success of course, and it seems to me you can't have it both ways. Why is it that this is okay for this contract and yet you're concerned about how IRB operates?