If you look at it from a business point of view, we often talk about let's protect the existing customers first. If you're losing customers, that is not a very good thing. So in OSME's case, the customer is the SME clients. If you're losing those clients, that's not a very good thing. But so far we've seen that they're expending lots of effort on going after new clients and new opportunities. I don't think that is time or money best spent. They should look at it from a more balanced approach by protecting some of the existing markets and then grow from there and build a foundation on that.
But the policy from the Treasury Board never really states how the government is going to deal with the SME people or the SME suppliers. It never had a policy for that. I searched around, and I cannot find it, unless you guys can point me to the right direction. They have the industrial regional program, which is not the same.
It's not idea-specific. I'm really talking about the SME segment. In political elections, many politicians talk about how important SMEs are. I did a study twenty-some years ago when I worked in the government. We used data to prove that SMEs are important to the GDP growth of Canada and it does not really have a solid policy on that. OSME is operating without such a policy. It has lots of difficulties getting other client departments to listen to them. It's too late when they go to OSME or go to PWGSC. The government or the client department has already decided that is the solution they want. You can't go back to change that.