Thank you.
My question is for you, Mr. Dade. You spoke to us earlier about the multiplication of agreements and the expansion of existing agreements. We know that, unfortunately, these negotiations often turn into vaudeville, where parliamentarians, provinces and stakeholders have no voice and must ultimately stamp existing agreements.
I'm going to touch on another aspect, that of the rediscovery of local purchasing since the pandemic began, and the need to offer some form of support to our companies and give them a certain priority in the awarding of public contracts. Quebec, for example, in the agreement with Europe, fought to keep a share of public contracts that could be awarded with Canadian content. It could even require the assembly of certain vehicles to be done in Quebec.
If we multiply the agreements, could this create problematic overlapping regulations? For example, in the case of rules of origin percentages and local content percentages, if a country signs multiple agreements, it could make these percentages difficult to combine.