There have been a number of points made.
I'd like to say that I take particular offence to Mr. Kramp's point about whining—in light of the fact that there are families at risk here, mine particularly.
I suggest to you that the solution you refer to is exactly what SME brings. SMEs supply the innovation to the Canadian economy. I appreciate that you said you were at one time a small innovative company.
At one time, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and if it wasn't for that great invention the world would be very different. He was a small business at the time.
I also want to note that I see some individuals around the room playing with their BlackBerrys, which came from a small company called RIM, which appears to have changed this room, if not the entire world, with mobile devices.
Innovation has driven this economy and has built Canada to what it is today. We now risk destroying that ability. Note also that this Ottawa area was built from a lot of spinoffs from companies whose innovation was responsible for growing a local IT economy.
I think that eliminating small business and not allowing us to provide our specialized services does a disservice to Canada. We offer specific solutions to our clients, and it is what they want. We don't win 70% of the business because we're not offering good solutions at good prices. We win this business because our clients are interested in our services, and they agree with our approach. We're not stymied by one model, one size fits all, trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, as the large integrators often say.
For some reason, bureaucrats have been convinced that bigger is better, and that is blatantly wrong. It's not true—it's never been true. It's always been small business that has driven our economy, and it's just as simple as that.