Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
I'll pick up on something that Mr. Simard was talking about and what Mr. Nighbor mentioned. Mr. Nighbor mentioned my private member's bill on government procurement and using a lens of climate action, cutting down greenhouse gas emissions when letting government contracts for building. I'm happy to say that the bill is in the Senate now and hopefully will start its way back to the House and have enough time to get there.
I'm just wondering if I could ask Mr. Nighbor if he has any sense of how government procurement has been with the construction of large wood buildings. I ask because when the Conservatives killed my bill in the Senate in the last Parliament, I heard from various government members in the House that I should not worry, that procurement was happening, that what I was proposing in my bill was becoming practice in the government. I'm just wondering if that's really the case. Has it been noticeable? What is the state of that?