Thank you.
Ms. saint pierre, over the last 10 or 20 years, our economy, and many of the developed economies around the world, have found ways to evolve their goods and services supply chains and package them into extremely efficient, well-financed, globalized supply chains. You can get a widget from the other side of the world here in seven and a half days. Much of it is extremely efficient. Some of us have called it the “Wal-Martization” of procurement. I'm sure your department is attracted to that model, because in many ways the business world--the economic world, the financial world--has produced these supply chains, and they're very efficient. But in terms of political representation in the House of Commons, almost every member of the House will be fighting for his or her constituency. So the Wal-Martization doesn't always fly in government procurement.
I know there'd be a propensity in the department to go for what we call the “bundling”, the big supply chain, but can you tell us that your department is, in some ways, resisting that? I know it sees the benefits of it, but is it also going to find ways to make room for small and medium-sized businesses? Tell me that when your department designs its procurement you will resist the tendency to turn everything into a Wal-Mart globalized procurement supply chain.