The Canadian winter is beautiful. We had a chance to chat briefly before the meeting. I understand you have had an opportunity to travel a little bit of the country, to Alberta and British Columbia.
I represent the riding of Kelowna—Lake Country. It's about an hour's flight from Vancouver into the interior of British Columbia. We'd welcome you there. As my colleague so generously commented about the Okanagan international award-winning wines, we have some in Ontario and across Canada that would go with that cheese. We're happy to export those as well. We look forward to your visiting us as well and seeing the rest of Canada.
Approximately one in five Canadian jobs, including in my riding, rely upon trade, so we welcome those 500,000-plus mouths to feed and water...and to use their services.
First of all, I have a question about procurement. In your opening comments you talked about the potential value savings in openness and transparency for procurement. I spent nine years in local government prior to my eight years federally. We're always looking at efficiencies.
Could you maybe share with the committee your understanding of some of those procurement opportunities for Canadians over the next few years?