As I described, we engage in industry discussions. I'll give you an example of one that we're doing right now. It's a request for information, which we usually put out. When we know a government department has a need, even before they've thought about the procurement strategy, we go to the market. We talk to industry. We'll have open engagement with industry, in both groups and one on one, and we'll find out who out there has a solution. We have one out right now for the Canadian Coast Guard as part of its fleet renewal. We'll talk to up to 50 companies. If the client department is thinking about invoking a national security exception, we'll tell those companies and we'll continue on with the competition, so it doesn't impact the competitive nature of the process. In fact, I offered a couple of examples this morning of many high-level, high-profile military procurements for which the national security exception has been invoked and we have proceeded competitively and awarded contracts in a competitive environment.
On February 23rd, 2017. See this statement in context.