Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I would like to welcome all of our witnesses as well.
I have a few questions I would like to ask. It is all very well to award national contracts for office supplies, but people in the regions we represent say that they are taxpayers as well. There may be just one province that is getting the 7 per cent benefit, but that is part of life in Canada. We have provinces and we have a country. The provinces collect taxes...