We're out of time there. However, Mr. McCauley has ceded the last seven-minute intervention to the chair. I invoke this right very rarely, but I will ask a couple of questions.
I'm curious, just to follow up on what Mr. Drouin and Mr. Masse were saying, about Shared Services Canada's apparent decision to reduce the number of qualified competitors from 12 to a maximum of three. It may be one or two. We don't know that yet. To me, I just have an inherent bias: I'm in favour of competition. I think the more competition the better. It's been proven time and time again. It lowers prices and increases efficiency and service.
Beyond that, my question to you specifically is this. Do you know how Shared Services Canada came up with a six- to eight-year rationale? I don't see why eight years is an appropriate time frame to evaluate the effectiveness of the program that they're suggesting. I would think that it could be done in far less time than that. Giving any company unlimited, unparalleled access to the government and their printer services for eight years is far worse than the monopoly that might occur.
How did the six to eight years from Shared Services Canada even enter into the discussion?