We've done a review of the municipal budgets at stake in Ontario alone, and our estimates suggest that if the region of Waterloo—we're talking about the whole region—is subject to closed bidding, that will be almost $942 million at stake. I think that is a big problem.
That's just in the province of Ontario. That doesn't include some of the Red River projects that are going on, the floodways, which have taken $324 million of federal funding alone.
That $942 million is from the cost of the projects themselves, but the federal government is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in these projects. Some Canadians are being barred from working on these projects because of their private choices, and that's simply not fair. It's not fair, and it doesn't provide good value for taxpayers' dollars.
So you have a situation where it's not fair. It's not providing any value for the taxpayer. I'm not sure why the status quo should be continued.