No, absolutely not. This is not a new concept, and we're hoping that we can finally move to action on this. I think the notion is that we would begin to think about using a very small percentage of our procurement budgets, which at the federal level are around $18 billion a year—across the country at all levels of government and public agencies, it's $100 billion a year—to think about how to bring Canadian innovations into the public systems, and to use that more strategic procurement approach to begin to retool the system. We would think not just about low cost but about value and begin to focus on challenges that need to be solved, rather than being prescriptive that the procurement needs to meet these five specs. We would say that we want this kind of problem solved and then allow the innovative community to come together to propose solutions, which may not be anticipated by a system that's focused purely on the lowest cost.
I think, as we are looking at bringing in entirely new disruptive innovations into the health care system, for example, you simply cannot evaluate their impact on the system, including their benefits to patients, and their benefits to costs in the system, by simply trying to be prescriptive. The benefit is multifold. It allows us to create opportunities for our innovators and young companies to begin to use our public systems, which are typically the buyers in regulated industries, to be a first validator and tester of those opportunities. It also allows us to begin to bring those innovations into our system and make our systems more productive and innovative.