Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you very much to the witnesses.
Mr. Chair, thank you for giving me the opportunity to participate here, since I'm not a regular member on this committee. It's a pleasure to be here.
I have a long question. My question goes to Mr. Weis.
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has stated that the oil and gas industry is the biggest investor in research and development into better ways of protecting the environment, and particularly that the industry is also devoting significant resources to carbon capture and storage as well as to reducing the amount of water used in extracting and processing.
First, given the significant resources that have been put into research and development, are there any kinds of innovative, made-in-Canada technologies that have been sold to international markets?
Mr. Weis, you also mentioned that reverse engineering of Canadian technology has occurred in Australia. I'm wondering whether there are more examples of that.
There was also a comment made by Mr. Salkeld. I think what he said was that there is $12.6 billion in export-related services. How is that related to innovation? Second, can you comment on the impact that these investments have had on employment within the innovation segment of the industry?