Your table does not really answer my question. If it is true that 98 percent of firms have 10 employees or less, are the 2 percent of firms with 100 employees or more being awarded 49 percent of the contracts? That is my question.
I have another question for Industry Canada. Small and medium enterprises are having trouble accessing the Department of Public Works. Let us talk only about small businesses for the time being; we will just forget about medium enterprises—the ones with no more than 500 employees. There is an access problem. There is also a problem accessing Industry Canada, particularly in the regions.
The complaint that we constantly hear from small and medium enterprises—and when I talk about small and medium enterprises, I am referring to those that have 100 employees or less, and not 500 employees or less—relates to how to access federal government services. There is not a single gateway. Ms. Bourgeois gave examples of this: CFDCs help businesses, the BDC help businesses, Economic Development Canada does so as well, as do the agencies and Industry Canada. A small business does not necessarily have all the necessary research tools to know which is the right door to knock on. There is no one-stop access point to reach the federal government.
Mr. Jordan, who talked about problems in the United States, referred to a single gateway for small and medium enterprises. For procurement, there is a single access point. Has consideration been given to creating a single gateway for small business?