Finance committee  Thank you. I talked about the building. One thing I didn't mention is under Canada's oceans action plan, back in 2006, we launched SmartBay, which was a Placentia Bay initiative. The study that was done on tanker safety in Canada identified this as one of the highest-risk region

Finance committee  Yes. Again, we are leveraging about 50% of total operational money, project money, activity, and training from the private sector. The private sector has been great in working on mapping the ocean, on acquiring the equipment to look at the deep ocean as we develop the offshore r

Finance committee  CAE is world renowned. Actually, the operating basis of our simulators comes from CAE. There's a partnership there. They're also working on helicopter simulators affiliated with this. The big thing, and it would be great to see it, Minister Navdeep Bains did this by land and by

Finance committee  I think one of the things that we say about Canada—I'm a governor of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, which does make me an expert on Canada—is that we have the largest coastline in the world. We have the three oceans. What we're doing is complementing what's happening in

Finance committee  And UPEI. When I look at Newfoundland and Labrador, or the east coast of Canada, or Canada in general, I see that we have settled here from the coast and then moved inland. I think awhile ago we forgot about the oceans a little bit. I'm hoping that the oceans come back to the fo

Finance committee  There are remotely operated vehicles that I mentioned, and the maritime studies and naval architecture programs for shipbuilding are unique. It's one of a kind in Canada. Again, most of our graduates come from B.C. and work in B.C. The Holyrood facility for us is access to the o

Finance committee  Thank you. That's a great question. We've been building. Back in 2007 we created this School of Ocean Technology. At that point in time, companies would advertise in Canada in three newspaper ads for a certain period of time for remote-operated vehicle operators. We brought in