The government has made one notable commitment to greening its operations. When we're talking about it in a carbon framework, it's slightly different from just a general greening, because the government has had a policy on greening procurement for a number of years, I believe since 2006. It's mostly applied to operational procurements, the supplies that government takes in, such as paper, etc., just for its daily operation. However, you can look at buildings and the ability to apply energy efficiency and clean technologies in buildings. You can essentially do it through procurement.
You can say building X. Pick a building on Sparks Street or wherever and say you want to make this building as efficient as possible. You can set out some requirements around budgeting and a few other things. Then you can ask the marketplace to tell you the most effective way to do this. The marketplace will come back to you and say that if your objective is to reduce GHGs in this building as much as possible, they believe it can be done by using these technologies, and this is how much it's going to cost. In that way government can be a demonstration case for new technologies, and if you do it by allowing SMEs to play a role in the procurement process, chances are you will also be capturing a lot of those technologies as Canadian.
When I talk about public procurement, a question that I often get asked about SMEs is if it is trade compliant, and it is. On a number of occasions, both the OECD and the WTO have done presentations on how doing an SME set-aside or allowing them to participate is a great trade-compliant way to spur domestic participation.
I hope that answers your question.