Industry committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for having me.

Industry committee  I think that in this case it's a regulatory authority. It is Transport Canada that decides what the appropriate standards are for various parts for vehicles. You have voluntary standards. They're being incorporated in their regulations. Sometimes, regulatory authorities will draft their own documents and call them “standards”, so it's not always a one-to-one correlation there.

Industry committee  Yes. Mr. Head has something to add to this.

Industry committee  Yes. You will see the adjustments made in the next version of our corporate plan. We have an ability at SCC to put money aside in a reserve when we don't spend all of our dollars. There was an accumulated reserve that we wanted to use. It's mostly for multi-year contracts that we carry through.

Industry committee  We'll live with the parliamentary appropriations we have. If the reserves get depleted to a certain level, then I guess we will reduce our expenses. That's what we're planning to do when we get to this equilibrium in a couple of years from now.

Industry committee  I don't understand your question. I'm sorry.

Industry committee  Our revenues are associated with our accreditation services. If a company wants to become an accredited certification body, they would apply to us and we would audit them. We do this in two ways. We can use our own staff in order to do the audits, or we can hire external consultants to do it, but that's all cost recovered.

Industry committee  It's not? Okay.

Industry committee  Is it or is it not?

Industry committee  I don't know. I believe it is.

Industry committee  I will have to get back to you, because my understanding was that the most recent annual report and the corporate plan were accessible on our website. Let me get back to you on that.

Industry committee  Okay.

Industry committee  The 2014-15 one? The 2014-15 report was tabled in Parliament.

Industry committee  Well, I think we're very open to respond and investigate on your behalf if there are issues that have been raised by a particular industry sector. That's our job.

Industry committee  The question always is, is the standard truly voluntary or is it part of a regulation? If it's part of a regulation, then we need to involve the regulatory authorities. Sometimes it's federal, but for these it could be provincial too.