Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Ross, I can confirm to you that I have had American politicians say to me that we should actually be looking at a buy Canadian act to at least negotiate access to the market, because there are so many companies with high integration that it's creating significant issues for their companies.
I would like to expand a little bit on bidding for contracts with some of the larger consortiums in Europe. We have one that just took place in Windsor where we're building a multi-billion dollar parkway to a new border crossing. Freyssinet, a Spanish consortium, actually went around the rules and produced 500 girders. Two hundred had been put in the ground already. They all had to be taken out and destroyed because they didn't meet Canadian standards. They didn't have the proper people in place, and they also tried to take shortcuts in the process.
I'd like you to comment on procurement bidding with some of these larger consortiums that are coming in, because we had local and also some national Canadian consortiums that were outbid on this P3.