I'm fairly new to this committee, and one of the other things I found interesting in reading through this agreement was that the threshold limits varied depending on whether they were goods or services. I think they were $600,000, and $8.5 million for construction, and so forth. My understanding, in talking to some of our manufacturers and people in Canada, is that by and large--as was noted with other procurement things--we don't usually enforce thresholds and block American contractors. That was the experience of some of the businesses I have.
I have two questions. Do the Americans, by and large, enforce these thresholds? If they do, what sort of substantive impact do they have on Canadian suppliers, manufacturers, etc.?