Government Operations committee  Could you please repeat the question?

Government Operations committee  I'm not in a position to determine who should be investigated and for what. That's not something I'm confident to comment on.

Government Operations committee  Sure.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. It's a big question, and I'm not sure a short answer can do it.

Government Operations committee  Fine. If someone will send me the question, I'm more than happy to put it in writing.

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

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  Yes.

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

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