Mr. David Schwartz at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

I would like to clarify something. I said 98 per cent for Quebec and Ontario. That figure is different; it is a base figure. To arrive at that figure, I considered all construction contracts signed by Public Services and Procurement Canada. On average, that comes to a little over $1 billion per year. When we look at the distribution of those contracts, by region, and the suppliers to which they were awarded, the figure was 93 per cent of those contracts for companies in the Atlantic provinces. For Quebec and Ontario, it was 93 per cent. These are two different figures.