Okay.
The Library of Parliament has prepared a briefing and I have it here. It says: “In Canada, the preferential treatment of national suppliers in the government procurement process has essentially resulted in a government policy which stipulates that...” and it quotes section 1 of the contracting policy. That's a Treasury Board policy. I won't read the whole policy, but at the end it says here that the objective is to seek “the optimal balance of overall benefits to the Crown and the Canadian people”.
The reason I find that hard to understand is because in the first part it says it's predicated on best value, and here it talks about the optimal “overall benefits”. By benefits, I presume they mean spinoffs and job creation, etc. Which is it?