Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
First, Mr. Rankin, I want to thank you for speaking French, because I don't know whether my anglophone colleagues would have tolerated that 80% of the testimony not be in their official language. It's very difficult to concentrate and understand everything when listening to interpretation. So thank you very much. It was a long statement, so I wanted to thank you.
My question is for you, Mr. Smith. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce noted that Bill C‑22 raises concerns and creates unpredictability because it's unclear who will be covered, due to the lack of definitions, which will be specified by regulation.
You seem to share this concern. Do you think some sectors or suppliers should be excluded? I'll give you the examples of Interac or Desjardins, whose representatives told us they should be excluded. Do you think we should specify in advance which sectors are excluded from the definition of primary suppliers, while still leaving the government some regulatory leeway, even as we try to narrow the range of primary suppliers?
Do you think specifying primary suppliers or setting out exclusions, for example, could be a reasonable solution?