Government Operations committee  Thank you.

Government Operations committee  We all want to be safe. We don't want to die in our buildings.

Government Operations committee  With regard to the health care, life science, and biotech side, we notice that a lot of our competitors over the last 10 years have taken advantage of the U.S. SBIR grants. We've always been quite envious of that because, unlike you, Sue, I raised VC for my very first biotech com

Government Operations committee  I got into medical school here in Ottawa. When I graduated from medical school, I got the award for the person who skipped the most classes in medical school and still graduated. What I did all that time when I skipped class was spend time in the lab. I was always trying to inven

Government Operations committee  It could be asbestos, radon, all that stuff.

Government Operations committee  Well, thank you.

Government Operations committee  Probably.

Government Operations committee  You and every one of us.

Government Operations committee  This is our first non-medical product. Because I'm a medical doctor, we already have FDA-approved, Health Canada-approved medical products.

Government Operations committee  Yes, so it's like this platform, except it's for drug testing or genetic testing.

Government Operations committee  It was 12 years ago. On the medical side, it's highly regulated. It requires FDA approval, Health Canada approval, so we had to gain our expertise on how you actually get regulatory approvals on that side. That took many years to figure out. The BCIP procurement seems like a cake

Government Operations committee  Feel free.

Government Operations committee  Exactly. Right now we're hand-building them in Ottawa for $2,000. We're about to get mass manufacturing that will probably drop it to less than $1,000 to about $500. Again, back in the days of mainframe computers and personal computers, I remember when I used to spend $5,000 on a

Government Operations committee  This might be one of the buildings we test. It's pretty crazy.

Government Operations committee  I could, but I didn't bring any cartridges. Brookfield told us there are government regulations that apply to all these federal government buildings, whereby they have to be tested every 30 days by something called bacterial culture—you know, in petri dishes, as in high school b