I really appreciate this. We've heard testimony of people who were concerned about these folks, Canadians who are building some very innovative and leading-edge technologies. The difficulty was that many times the RFPs coming out weren't asking for what their new technology was; they were asking for what the old technology was. There was possibly some disconnect there. We appreciate that this is something the government is working to address, because it is a concern we have heard around the table. I think we as a committee have been concerned to ensure that we as government were on the leading edge.
My sense is that we sometimes purchase in a reduced-risk atmosphere or in an effort to reduce the risk, because a flop of a technology or a flop of a project is obviously big news, whereas we never talk about and there's never a headline about the major success and the savings of dollars we incur as a result of adopting a new technology. There is the relationship with the taxpayers, the people who entrust us with their money to get the job done. I know there's a challenge, and I'm not sure how we get entirely around that whole issue of the fact that in some cases projects will fail, if in fact we are an early adopter of new projects.
I appreciate your answer.