It gives me a moment to pause.
The Canadian innovation commercialization program was a natural for our office. We hear many things from suppliers, some of the things you raised today, like it would be nice if the government paid on time--those kinds of things. We heard loud and clear from entrepreneurs across the country who were asking such things as why the government doesn't take an interest in innovation, why we weren't buying things that are pre-commercialized, why we weren't their first buyer. All those questions we were getting from small businesses made it clear to us that one of the mandates we needed to have, because we are in the procurement arm of government, was to think about how to leverage the power of procurement to help innovators, inventors, and creative people in Canada to see their creations become commercialized. The role of our office is to reach out to suppliers and listen to them....
I'm done? Is that what that means?