Thank you so much, Chair.
Thank you to all of you for what you're contributing today. It's deeply appreciated.
This is the right time, as mentioned, for us to get really serious about this. It's interesting to me what I'm hearing today with regard to this decision to focus far more on veterans and what they can offer in light of where our country is right now and where we are with needing procurement in our national defence and with the commitment our Prime Minister has made.
I have a question. I don't know how it really fits in, but it impacts me in my riding. We have a lot of manufacturers across Canada that work in the area of providing all kinds of materials that are made into something specific across the world, but they are not engaged at all within our own country and within the military side of procurement for Canada. They would really like to be.
Our Prime Minister mentioned in a speech just this weekend that we will be doing national defence procurement using our own resources—our steel, our aluminum, our rare minerals and our tech—but he has not spoken a lot about who's going to get to do this. How do you see that working?
I'll ask Mr. Grewal, first of all, and then I would like to ask Mr. Blanchard. It seems that you have an inroad there. Is that true?