Thank you for the question. I will answer in English to provide a slightly more technical response.
We just published a report called “Buying What We Build”. It's about public buying in Canada and what we can do with it.
To give a more fulsome answer, there are things we can do. There's a new buy Canadian policy in place that I think will be very helpful in moving the needle on this. Our recommendation to the government is that we treat the Canadian content portion, in services, of the policy as reflective of the innovative and value-added capacity that is added to the economy by companies doing business here and doing business with the government. In particular, we want to see that the Canadian content provisions for services reflect investment in IP, reflect investment in R and D in the country, reflect Canadian control and management, and reflect control of data.
I think if you added those criteria to how bids are assessed, you would see a switch to a more sovereign, more innovative and more value-added digital stack in Canada as part of the public service.
