Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We agree with the intent of the motion because the federal procurement policy is very important to us too. However, it would seem that saying “procure” means there is an obligation to procure.
I would therefore like to move an amendment. After “VIA Rail”, instead of writing “procure its rolling stock from manufacturers established in Canada for […]”, we can simply write “applies the federal Buy Canadian Policy in the context of […]”.
The last part of the motion remains the same, that is “in order to support the maintenance and development of domestic jobs and industrial capacity”.