Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I add my voice of welcome, folks, and thank you for taking time out of your busy day to share your expertise with us.
I have a couple of questions. According to the open-source information we have available to us, in 2006 about 42% of all U.S. Department of Defence contracts, representing some 68% of their total value, were single-source contracts. There were 402 contracts valued at $231 million to Canadian companies alone.
In Canada, we see the average of 80% of the value of contracts awarded by PWGSC on behalf of DND was the result of competitive processing. Should we be doing more or less on the single-source issue when it comes to procurement?