I admit this is one of the biggest challenges. How do you go ahead with either some strategic procurements or direct procurements in some of these technologies? I'm a proponent of going ahead with some of these strategic purchases and having the IRBs. I think the example here was a country like Korea, which nails it down and says, “Here are the elements, or here's the technology we want to go after.” I think Canada should develop some of those.
I'm going to say satellite technology; it's been in the news a bit with the MDA purchase and a few other things. We are not allowed to bid into some countries like the U.K. and Europe for those same types of products, but they can bid here. They have economies of scale. They have other competitive factors to us. So a lot of times I think we in Canada take a step back and say, “Well, we need that natural process to go.” If we take that step, let's understand that it does harm or impact our potential for long-term strategic growth in areas like satellite technologies or other advanced technologies.
We need to look closely with other countries and see how they do put these policies and plans in place. I'm suggesting there should be some Canadian government policy change to either mirror or look at and address some of the high-technology sectors for Canadian industry.