Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To follow on what my colleague Ève was saying, I must admit that Brazil, with its original position, its identity and its place on the international scene, is very interesting. It's a very fine challenge to know the country and, at the same time, to start negotiations to trade with them. The challenges are geared to these new paths Brazil is taking while it is breaking certain moulds. It's basically also a challenge for us to adapt to this new reality.
I'm going to come back to the business world in Brazil. With respect to the difficulty that small enterprises have in doing business in a world where red tape may be a significant obstacle, I would say that I'm greatly concerned about the competitive advantage the larger Canadian enterprises may have, for example with infrastructure contracts, over small enterprises that have nowhere near the resources to deal with the red tape. The reality that many Canadian entrepreneurs experience means that they do not necessarily have the means or that those kinds of contract would be very costly for them. It may even ruin their ability to compete, to enlist legal accounting resources to deal with these challenges. On the other side of things, there are large multinational companies. I'll use SNC-Lavalin as an example. It's already established and has significant resources. So it's really not a problem for that company.
Do you think these obstacles could at this point be significant enough that they would clearly disadvantage small enterprises to the point that they might become less competitive compared with companies that have the means to deal with the obstacles?