Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank all of the witnesses today for joining us.
It is important for members of Parliament to leave Ottawa and speak with key people. Certainly, we would like to get to all provinces, but we're also constrained from a budget standpoint and want to get to all regions. So we appreciate particularly the gentlemen from Newfoundland and Labrador for joining us here today.
I'm going to try to ask a couple of questions.
Thank you for appearing, Your Worship. Specifically, on the procurement side, one of your comments was that opening up procurement for larger scale infrastructure projects may take longer because it would be a wider RFP. Do you have any detail on why you think it would be longer?