Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the member's question, and I will also ask Marc to help me with the response.
I need to be briefer. I apologize to all the members for my rambling.
The short answer is, I believe it is. These are fast-paced technologies that are developing very rapidly. It would be arrogant for us to think that we have all the expertise in Shared Services to be able to do what we need to do.
Furthermore, as was pointed out, if you look at the global movement of large tech companies, if we do not invest in Canadian IP, that is a challenge for us. I want to be able to do business with Canadian companies, and that means we need to encourage them to play on a global field, to think big. We're a big client, so it only makes sense that we make ourselves available to them to tap into the IP that they are building and developing. If we don't, we won't have it, or it will just be bought up.