Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here tonight.
I'll start with Dr. Wayner and Dr. Quinn from the National Research Council, just because it seems like such an interesting agency. I think you said you have 22 labs across the country—disciplinary teams.
The one NRC facility I know very well is the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton, in my riding. That's been around for the last seven years or so. I know Dr. Duncan, our chair, has been there. That is an NRC facility that has a very pure research focus. It's almost like an academic institution looking at deep space and that sort of thing, but I know NRC also does very applied work. Some work I've heard about through my time on the natural resources committee was experiments they did with the flammability of building materials, specifically around mass timber construction, looking at how safe those materials were.
I'm just curious as to how the agency is structured, what these 22 labs or locations do, and how permanent they are. Perhaps you could start there. I have other questions, but I just want to get a broader sense of how the NRC is set up, how it decides to do what, and whether to keep on doing it or not.