Government Operations committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and honourable members. Thank you for this opportunity to address the committee on issues that I believe are of critical importance to VOTI Detection and the Canadian business community. In my remarks I will address three main issues that I beli

Government Operations committee  There is the potential for a security breach as a function of the machine being required to be maintained. From that maintenance visit, a maintenance technician could easily download all of the information on the hard drive.

Government Operations committee  I think it would be extremely difficult to calculate what the degree of subsidy is relative to a given contract. A company like Nuctech is fully sponsored by the Chinese government, and as such, the financial commitment that the Chinese government has made is endless. There is no

Government Operations committee  Is that a question for me?

Government Operations committee  Go to Mr. Buric by all means. I'm not qualified to answer.

Government Operations committee  I'd like to add that small companies like ours spend many millions of dollars a year developing their research and development. To be sure, a minuscule amount comes back to us through SR and ED and other potential subsidies, but not nearly what we put out. To look at the fact tha

Government Operations committee  We've supplied CBSA, in response to a tender, with X-ray machines, smaller tunnel-size 60-40 machines and one-metre-by-one-metre tunnel-size machines. We have provided them with quite advanced technology per their request. We worked very much hand in hand with them, and we contin

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  I don't even know if Nuctech bid on that.

Government Operations committee  No, VOTI Detection has not been approached for any rebid or given any information about a rebid.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Buric, you can go first.

Government Operations committee  In the other bid opportunities where we have seen Nuctech in other countries outside of North America, while they were given an initial status as being a bona fide bidder, they were subsequently removed as such.

Government Operations committee  Listen, I'm not sure what the correct process is. I'm not a security expert and I'm certainly not an expert in the internal workings of government and best practices, but there are certain things that are so obvious that—

Government Operations committee  It certainly didn't need to take a quarter of a million dollars to tell you something, frankly speaking, that should have been quite obvious to everybody, and it was. The attempt to make it obvious to everybody was certainly something that was attempted.

Government Operations committee  I do not know the answer. I'm sorry.