I've been working on and have introduced a private member's bill, Bill C-300, which is trying to change the procurement system to give greater weight within that bidding process to companies that manufacture within Canada and give them that one-up.
You spoke in your testimony about making that space for those Canadian companies and ensuring that this plays a role. Can you reflect on the relationship between that federal procurement and those dollars being spent within Canadian manufacturing, and how important that is? Can you speak more about that?