I can start. One of the fundamentals of the way we conduct procurement, one basis that we have to refer to, is the trade agreements. Canada is a signatory to a few trade agreements, one of which is NAFTA and the other one is AIT.
When you had an opportunity to have a presentation from the Small Business Administration in the States, they mentioned to you that within NAFTA these deals are set aside for small business. This brings the question of why we don't have a set-aside for small business, when I look at the percentage of small business in Canada. The answer comes with the AIT, the Agreement on Internal Trade, that we signed immediately after NAFTA.
We started with NAFTA in 1994, and then in 1995 we signed between the provinces and the government. Within the AIT there is no provision for a set-aside for small business. Actually, there is a provision to say that suppliers have the right to compete, so that is one of the challenges we have when we are asked why there is no set-aside for small business as such.