I'm the cleanup hitter for the end here.
Thank you to our witnesses, and thank you, Mr. Chair.
We've heard lots of interesting comments on this study on the effectiveness of the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises and the Canadian innovation commercialization program.
CFIB, we appreciate the work you do. I'm a former small business owner, and I say every week is a small business week. Every day, the moms and dads and the entrepreneurs hiring more employees keep our country moving and growing.
There are a couple of specific issues we're looking at from the comments you've put forward here. One of them is procurement, the aspect of procurement for economic development opportunities in creating jobs and growing our economy.
I was interested in reading the survey, and one of the comments from one of your members referred to MERX. It said, “There should be better description or preview and preference should be given to Canadian owned businesses, after all, it is Canadian tax dollars paying for these contracts.”
Is that the position of CFIB?