One of the made-in-Canada provisions that I've cited at this committee before is this. To be able to prove that you've actually canvassed a competitive field in your tender, there have to be three Canadian bids in order to use the made-in-Canada provisions--to say that you've truly tested it.
In the example, an egregious example, of buses, there are only two Canadian bus manufacturers--one in Quebec, one in Winnipeg--so they went out and bought German buses.
Now, we make the best buses in the world in Canada. I think Winnipeg makes the best and Quebec makes the second-best buses in the world. Why would we buy Mercedes-Benz to carry our soldiers around? And the difference in price--get this--was $500,000, on a $50 million contract. It's less than the price of a set of tires on each of these buses, and we ended up buying German instead of made in Canada, made in Quebec. There's something terribly wrong with the made-in-Canada procurement provision if something like that can take place.