Minister, I consider this issue very important. Like some of my colleagues, I've previously played the role of municipal councillor in my community. When we accounted to the public every month for our purchases and actions, citizens saw that 80 per cent, for example, of the goods we had purchased were local. People said those purchases created jobs at home, and so on. You shouldn't buy at just any price, but this is a highly motivating factor.
We've received the document on the next stages at our offices. If you sent it with a strategic purpose in mind, I congratulate you. We received it at 7:30, and we were here at 8 o'clock. That's extraordinary.
Do you have a concern related to your green program. Are you keeping that concern in mind to ensure that suppliers—that supply goods or services to Canadians—also have green policies in order to produce goods as green as possible? Do you require that respect for a sustainable environment be taken into account, both when buying a good from a private sector supplier and when you acquire the product internally, on the hill or elsewhere, for example when you install a green roof? Do you set that requirement for suppliers?