Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Jordan, in our earlier session today, which you may not have had a chance to hear, we heard some interesting suggestions from an office of small and medium enterprises that we have within our public works department. There are some concerns that it hasn't really been doing enough for small and medium enterprises.
One of the suggestions that came up today was to have our office of small business within the government act as a bit of a test bed to encourage smaller enterprises—this was in the context of information technology, and high tech companies in particular—when there might be a concern within government about engaging and contracting with a small business with perhaps less tried and true technology, for example. This is all in the context of encouraging innovation. The suggestion was that the office itself act as a bit of a test bed, to offer the opportunity for companies to try out their technology before the decision is made whether to contract with them or not.
Is that something that you do? What are your thoughts on it?