Thank you very much for the question.
We are doubling down, both in our supplier diversity and in our indigenous procurement approaches through the Procurement Assistance Canada program. This is a program we run at PSPC with six regional offices, which is open to every SME across Canada.
We're providing concierge services on how to bid, how to compete and how to sign up and find out what notifications exist. There are coaching services, so if you're interested in a bid.... These services are very niche services. They're open to any Canadian SME across Canada. I really hope that, in your own ridings, you will send businesses our way. We're here and we're trying to increase bidder diversity, which is a very important element of it.
The money that we have put aside in the supplementary estimates (C) was a transfer over to Indigenous Services Canada so that they could help build the capacity in those first nation communities and in those first nation organizations to be able to compete, either as a prime or as a sub, or to do some apprenticeship.
We're doing a lot of capacity building. We're trying to get the word out, and we're looking at how we bundle procurements, so the supplier diversity efforts are along these lines. We're also working with Stats Canada data. We can see in certain statistical datasets that there already exists a lot of capacity and expertise that we're trying to tap into by tailoring the RFP documentation to encourage them to compete.