Thank you for the question. It's a very good one.
Our typical policies, in general, are to compete—compete for largely everything. In the case of small companies with unique technologies that are selling directly to the federal government, I would argue that we should potentially even be skipping a competitive process with foreign entities, perhaps by signalling that you want certain capabilities within your country. You can limit it to only Canadian companies, which we don't do very often.
The second thing is that we have largely passive policies with respect to foreign OEMs, which are largely the platform provider. In the case of aerospace, most of the platform providers—the platform being the aircraft—are foreign, even if they do have a small Canadian component to them. These smaller Canadian companies are in those supply chains. What you need to do is be far more interventionist as to how you want those foreign primes to pick up smaller Canadian suppliers within their supply chains. However, you need to do that a lot further up front because, when you purchase something off the shelf, largely, a foreign prime contractor is not incentivized to change over their entire supply chain for the low volumes that we do in Canada.
The industrial and technological benefits policy is one of the tools that could be used to try to stimulate getting small businesses into foreign supply chains, but as I said, it's largely passive. It's not done far enough up front in the development stages to push Canadian firms into the supply chains of these foreign OEMs when they're actually building the aircraft.