Thank you for the question.
If I left that impression with you, I misspoke. These offices are based in those cities for two reasons. One is that there are rather large clusters of SMEs around those cities. In terms of saving money as well, we already had offices in some of these cities and we could move people.
But as I said earlier, Madame Chair, I made it clear to my people and to the people running the Office of SMEs that they're supposed to be on an outreach program. I want them to go out there and meet as many boards of trade as they can, reach out to SMEs to tell them we're open for business, and explain to them how they can access the MERX system, which is our electronic tendering system.
And by the way, we have eliminated the fee for MERX. Under the previous government, there used to be a fee to access MERX, but there isn't one any more. For people accessing MERX, it doesn't cost them a penny. They can do it from their home, their business, or their basement.
So that message has been transmitted to the people running the office.