Finance committee  What can I say? As I said, I think it's been included without people fully understanding what they were including. There may be an alternate reason that they put it in, but it affects us dramatically.

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  When we first saw it, as the gentleman mentioned, we had missed the cut-off period to comment.

Finance committee  We weren't aware of it, so we didn't have a chance to comment on it.

Finance committee  That's standard practice. Yes.

Finance committee  No. Our employees came from Teleglobe. We were the marine department of Teleglobe. When they were privatizing, and so on, we went on our own and started a company that carried on in a similar business, but we branched out to much more international and to shipping as well.

Finance committee  There are no more copper cables.

Finance committee  They're all fibre optic, and 95% of the world's—

Finance committee  They haven't been taken up; they've been left in place.

Finance committee  It's better for the environment to leave them there, believe it or not.

Finance committee  Yes, that's correct.

Finance committee  Yes. In fact, that would be fine. But it would be nice if there were a Canadian company left to bid on that rather than having a bunch of Canadians work for foreign companies.

Finance committee  This is unusual because we are basically a small business. We operate two vessels. There are only 39 cable ships throughout the world. We have two of them. They are purpose-built vessels to do this, so it's a very specific industry. In a good year, we might do $50 million worth

Finance committee  Yes, it's probably by accident, out of ignorance, more or less, as to the magnitude of what is involved in cable laying.

Finance committee  That's correct. We only have competitors from other countries.