That's confirming a lot of other testimony we've been hearing, so thank you.
To both of the witness panels, I'm interested in your advice to us around recommendations we could make about government procurement. We heard evidence early in this study from a professor from Simon Fraser University, who said that the last time the New Democrats were in power in B.C. they tied into contracts for building a major highway on Vancouver Island the requirement that a certain percentage of the jobs and apprenticeships had to go to women and indigenous people. They bumped that up from 2% of employment to 20% of employment. Even though the contractors didn't want to see it and had never been able to get beyond 2% before, when it was a requirement it worked out really well.
I would like to hear, from an economic standpoint, whether you would like to see those kinds of measures built into infrastructure procurement, since this government is about spend so much.