We've looked through the Accountability Act to see if in fact there are any provisions that would meet this requirement for ending preferential procurement. There is a section--and we're waiting for a legal opinion from Infrastructure Canada on this--that suggests that the Auditor General of Canada be given investigative authority to look at matched funding programs that the federal government gives to the provinces, where the provinces use that money in an “uneconomical way”. We're hoping this does in fact allow the federal government to ask the Auditor General of Canada to investigate when provinces introduce such policies that offer union or non-union or regional, or whatever type of preference it may be....
I just want to repeat that this is not about having any problem with unions--in the case of the Manitoba floodway or anything; this is really that it adds significant cost to a project, which is inherently unfair.