I was hoping to address our procurement SME study when we finish this stimulus package discussion today too. That's fine.
Do we have a crisp articulation of your...? Oh, we do have it here.
June could be busy for us. Can we move from this to SME procurement now?
I was hopeful that we could begin to try to give some preliminary focus to our researcher here on SME procurement. As you all now know, this is a very big and complex subject, and every time you open one door, two more doors open. If we aren't prudent in how we handle this, we'll never finish and get something tangible done. I think it's the view here that we can finish this and get a report into the House before we break for the summer. I'm sure we can. But in order to do it, we're going to have to limit how many of the chains we keep pulling on.
We have an hour. We don't have to use the whole hour, but could we go around the table and I'll recognize anybody who wants to offer a suggestion or thoughts to our researcher on how we want to frame our report, the focus.
Perhaps I could start. It was my sense that we have identified up to half a dozen principles or dynamics that we are very concerned about as members of Parliament. I think we should be able to flag those and give examples and explain why these criteria and principles are important to Public Works when they design procurement strategies.
Ms. Scratch would love to have some articulation of those. I'm not going to mention them now. Members will design this; I'm not going to do it. If that's okay, I'll go around the table and recognize members at random. Or I'll follow the normal order, if you want.