Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair.
As I highlighted, I'm by no means an expert in health care, but I would say that market conditions are an element that goes into the consideration of whether or not the public service can meet a need or whether or not a department would need to resource through contracts to deliver on that expertise or on those services.
Areas of market shortages and limited market availability will obviously impact the public service and would likely lead to that decision and looking at what the best way to meet that immediate need would be. That may very well be procurement.