For the record, at no point would we ever advocate for the lowest bidder or the lowest cost. Obviously, doing that could impact quality. All of the things you mentioned weigh significantly into the decision-making process within tendering. Other factors to take into account are things like health and safety. Those are paramount in the construction industry in this day and age, and the safety of our members is certainly the number-one priority.
Back to the question of competition and some of the items that the committee is wrestling with, we continue to say that we would absolutely never say that you want to go towards the lowest bidder. Lowest cost doesn't mean the cheapest at the end of the day, as even Mr. Blakely has said. But in these particular types of agreements, specifically in Manitoba, it's the same end result in that you've taken the pool of a potential workforce from what it could be into what it is because of the restrictions specifically based on union affiliation. That's where we say this is not fair to Canadian taxpayers.