Mr. Gunner LaCour:

I thank the committee for having me. I am deeply honoured to be here. As Mr. Flanagan mentioned, I work with a company called CHRIMS, which has been providing data services in the US to totes, race tracks and regulators for the past 35 years. I am also a former regulator and attorney. We have been working with the IHRA for the past five or so years on how to help it proceed if it gets a tote licence. We have examined everything from a brand-new build to using existing technology. In the sense that it is not a tote that is currently established and on the ground, it would be a fresh build. However, the best option for the IHRA would be to work with some of the existing operators, take that technology and apply it to themselves. In that way, there would be a wealth of historical knowledge in terms of tote operations, knowing the customer, noticing any money laundering and all of sorts of thing that are already established and the IHRA can use for the benefit of harness racing.