I'm very interested in this possibility. There's been some indication to me that they'd like to have a meeting some time in August with the people in Quebec. That's still being worked out. I'm certainly aware of the issue in the development of the north. This is clearly a technology that would serve a huge part of Quebec.
Just as in other parts of the country, there's a large hinterland in the north that is not available or accessible by road today, so it makes sense. It makes double sense for Quebec, because you also have the largest aerospace centre in Canada. There would be an industry to employ people to build airships and use them in the north. So there's kind of a double reason why Quebec should be interested.
I met some time ago with people there, but this has been a long process. Even to reach the place where we're speaking to you today has taken ten years of effort to raise this topic and get currency with it. No offence to the raising of the Hindenburg, but that's something that's etched in everybody's brain. They think of airships and they think of the Hindenburg. That was 75 years ago. Cars and airplanes weren't safe 75 years ago. So we can't dismiss an industry or a technology on the basis of one accident a long time ago.
It's a matter of looking at why it hasn't happened, and it really comes down to economics. As long as we can do everything with existing airplanes and other transportation systems, we don't even have to think about this. But times have changed. We cannot get to where we want to go. It is costing us a huge amount of money. And by the way, it isn't just a lost opportunity for resources. We pay dearly in health care costs and out of other pockets to support the people in the north because of the bad transportation that exists there. So we're already paying the money; we're just saying let's do it in a different way to reduce that cost and make it a better world.