The brave new world into which IOS has emerged, following the end of the worst industry downturn in living memory downtown, is a very different landscape to the one of five-years ago. The Canadian mining sector of 2016/17 is a game which must be played to new rules. Not that Rejean Girard, the CEO of IOS Geoscientifiques, is in anyway concerned – he has observed first-hand the ebbs and flows of this most cyclical of industries for nearly a quarter century, and kept the company at the top, rain or shine, through the provision of service excellence and unrivalled innovation.