Your observations, again, are bang on, sir.
What you may be lacking is that we have the technology today for what we call shared maritime domain awareness, or MDA. It has been developed over the last 15 years because of post-9/11 concerns, but now it's making its way into the commercial and shipping and logistics handling areas as an application.
The Canadian government has strategies at the highest level across all federal departments. In fact, the interdepartmental marine security working group, which is a group of Transport Canada, recognizes the need for federal partners to share MDA.
We have Canadian technology. It's been fielded in small-scale full operations, so we're ready to go. It requires no IT infrastructure, other than your cellphone or mobile device or computer, and access to the Internet. It's already being used in small pockets around this system, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway shipping system. It's ready to go.
Expanding the infrastructure so that we can see the entire system and the connections: the training, the ports, terminal operators, seaway users—all the stakeholders—and giving the shipping companies and their planning and marketing groups these tools is what will then result in decision-making that will benefit them. The researchers giving them that big data is what will allow them to look at the patterns, understand the spatial and temporal variations, and then design solutions that would alleviate problems and develop best practices in those areas.
It's a new data source. We are literally mining, both at the raw and refining level, a whole new industry.