First, thank you for reminding us of that announcement.
For us, it's clear that the way we gauge the success of our “buy Canadian” policy will be by seeing an increase in Canadian content and in the number of Canadian companies winning contracts.
The problem is that there is not necessarily a high level of visibility at this time with regard to Canadian content, meaning that we may have a Canadian supplier without the content being Canadian. That is what we are changing with the “buy Canadian” policy. Not only must the supplier have an address in the country, but we also need to see that the content is Canadian.
The cold, hard benefits will be much more visible and will now be taken into consideration at contract award. That is the main purpose of the “buy Canadian” policy.
