I can go first.
I'm sure you'll want to add something.
I can state that access to sub-national markets, otherwise known as access to provincial procurement, is an important issue for the Europeans. Furthermore, many Canadian companies are not necessarily averse to cleaning up the public procurement markets. I think that the provinces can play a significant role in this matter.
Several of our members are taking an offensive stance. For example, there is the aerospace industry in Quebec, which has a very strong interest in opening up European Union procurement markets. We are hoping that we will have a reciprocal relationship. In other words, we want greater access for the Europeans to our procurement markets to open up the door for us to similar gains in the European Union.
As for the comments you quoted, I would say that the international trade commitments made by the provinces often result in a clean-up of the management of procurement markets, or they make them stronger.
Since 2009, this change has taken place as a result of the broadened procurement agreement negotiated by Canada and the United States, an agreement that included the provinces. The provinces had never signed on to NAFTA. What's changed since 2009 are the international trade commitments made by the provinces with respect to their own procurement markets. So we would be broadening part of these commitments to include the European Union, and we are even trying to see if we can be a little bit more ambitious, to the extent that this would enable us to achieve important gains in European market access.