Thank you, Chair, and thank you, witnesses.
I won't go into the legal aspects. I think many of my colleagues have already asked what the legal ramifications are. Others have asked how our conversations with the Americans have been going and about the dialogue between two governments and two executive branches.
Mr. Verheul, you can probably direct this to whomever. What is the percentage of American companies that procure in Canada? What's the GDP, or how much of Canadian procurement is American?
Where I'm going, I'll lead you to that, too, so you can answer it in one answer. If in fact our discussions of a friendly nature currently being worked on with the U.S. do not coincide with a “buy North America” attitude, or “buy Canadian and American”, what is the percentage of goods being procured by the Canadian government that could be at risk for Americans to lose? Do we have a number like that?