Minister, were it not for the work of this committee, which did in fact hear the voices of small and medium businesses, I'm wondering whether or not they would have been heard. These small and medium businesses said that they were dissatisfied with the relationship they had with Public Works and Government Services Canada.
That being said, would it be possible for your deputy ministers, in the next few months, to sit down with the small and medium businesses from other sectors? As you were saying, you heard representatives from information technology, but there are other sectors representing, for example furniture, where people are saying that they are not being listened to.
Could you instruct your deputy ministers to sit down with representatives from small and medium businesses in order to reach an agreement that is as favourable, as you have said, as the one for IT?