I think in the government's procurement policy it sets out the conditions by which we undertake procurement, which are that it should be competitive, except in areas where for security reasons or whatever, or the size of the contract, there may be only one competitor. As well, the government has built into procurement policy provisions to achieve other objectives for the government, for example, ensuring that aboriginals have a certain percentage of overall procurement, or ensuring that the procurement we undertake meets certain environmental standards, what we call green procurement conditions.
At the same time as the government moves to look at how we undertake procurement, Public Works, for example, has given special attention to small and medium-sized business. As we are looking at reforming our procurement approach, in doing so the government wants to ensure that those businesses continue to receive a fair share of the overall procurement budget.
I think there are ways, while continuing to move to competitive process, to ensure other objectives are being achieved at the same time.