I'll compliment the committee. I think the accountability the committee is bringing to the supplier community is incredibly important. The work I do looks more at the practices of departments and less at the practices of suppliers. I find the work the committee is doing to hold suppliers accountable for inappropriate practices is particularly helpful. I guarantee you it will have positive outcomes in the procurement system moving forward.
In terms of what I can suggest as foundational changes—I'll never stop talking about this until it happens—there's the government-wide vendor performance management framework. Its implications are so significant. It's such a basic principle: The Government of Canada should work only with suppliers that are performing well. It should not work with poorly performing suppliers. Everyone would agree with that principle. We have to stand up not just a department-wide system, but a federal system across all departments and agencies. Public Services and Procurement Canada, to compliment the department, is currently running a pilot within the department, but that's still at the departmental level.
One other thing I'll highlight is that we would like to perform ADR work for appeals pursuant to the vendor performance management framework, so we need to stand up that capability, but again, where are we going to find those resources, both financial and human, in order to do that? We believe we're the right entity to do it, but we need the resources. Those will need to be stood up in the next year or two. Time is of the essence.
I think we'll also—