Thank you. I appreciate the committee's indulging me. I sit on the trade committee, so I find a lot of this really interesting.
We see a proposed carbon tax or a charge on carbon coming into Canada in the next couple of years. I'm curious how you're going to consider that in your tendering and in your purchases. When you're looking at goods, and you have a Canadian company that's going to pay that carbon tax or that price on carbon, and you're looking at competing countries that may not have a price on carbon or a carbon tax, how will that be taken into consideration or will it be taken into consideration? I'm looking for some comments on that.
The second question I have is related to purchasing. I always find it interesting. There was an article I read a couple of years ago. A former adviser to Prime Minister Harper had this beef about how our military can't buy something off the shelf. If it's good enough for the Americans, why can't it be good enough for the Canadians? If it's good enough for the British, why can't it be good enough for Canadians? Why do we need to spend all this time and effort redesigning stuff that's already being used out there in the world today?
I'll start off with the carbon tax, and then I'll let you finish with the second question on why we feel we need to redesign everything before we buy it. This is wide open.