Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here this morning.
I would like to continue on strategic procurement for a few seconds, Mr. Dale, if I may. If your country doesn't buy your technology, you have a problem. That seems to me to be the first step. An example that I use is Magellan in Winnipeg, which developed a satellite and was up for tender with the government and lost to a U.K. company. The reason the U.K. company could produce it cheaper is because the U.K. government had sponsored four satellites with that company.
Again, we have to respect trade rules, which is another issue we have. What do you recommend specifically? Because with all the treaty rules that are now in place with our free trade agreements we can't favour Canadian companies. I'm not sure that what you just proposed is possible--in other words, having selective bids for those young companies.