Thank you very much for the question.
Something that would help Canadian companies—and we identified in our survey, through which we found over 450 dual-use, Canadian-headquartered, Canadian-owned companies—is access to procurement. The buying Canadian legislation that was introduced in December was a good starting point, but the reality is that we need to have a clearer definition of what it means to be a Canadian company. You may put the maple leaf on your logo or say you're a Canadian company because you employ people, but that doesn't cut it. We need to think about where the IP is stored, where companies are mined and managed and where their senior leadership team is.
From there, the government really needs to look at buying Canadian when possible. We see that in the defence industrial strategy. They've committed to that.
We have a number of great Canadian companies, even inside of CCI. I think of Thornhill Medical—which is actively working in Ukraine, saving lives—and a number of other companies as well.
We need to make sure that, when we do have the capabilities, we are buying Canadian. Like my colleague James said earlier, his company is employing Canadians. They're headquartered here, but they're not getting the opportunities. We need to change that in our procurement systems.