Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for appearing today.
Ms. Cianfarani, you talked about institutionalized standards, and of course we've seen a lot of back-and-forth overall between governments in terms of the idea of procurement and not having these longer-term, neutral, non-partisan types of plans, which has really gotten in the way of what I think you're talking about in terms of what the industry can do, what it can provide, how it can plan itself and how it can build, especially when small and medium-sized enterprises, as you said, are the majority of Canadian businesses.
Would you discuss some of the points around the fact that even now we seem to be shifting it again? We had a government that went sole-source for some procurement projects, and then it was refuted by another government saying we needed an open bidding process. That took a very long time and cost a lot of money. Now we seem to be shifting back to that idea of urgent operational requirements, and a lot of procurement projects are focusing on that to actually bypass that open-source procurement.
Can you talk about what that does to the industry overall from a cybersecurity perspective and also in defence procurement overall?