International Trade committee  From what we've seen.

International Trade committee  We've talked with provinces about their scope and their projects. Those numbers are very much provincial. In this case it's provincial procurement we're talking about, so it would be for the provinces to address those questions.

International Trade committee  The reporting on procurement is done on a different basis in different areas or in different jurisdictions, both in the U.S. and in Canada. Not everybody requires the same information or in the same way or on the basis of the same..monthly or yearly. So it's very difficult to put

International Trade committee  We are of course looking at the bills being introduced in Congress, and we're working with our embassy to track the information that's becoming available. With respect to which bills have been passed to date, I don't think there are any, from my perspective. But we are of course

International Trade committee  Defining estimates of the size of contracts, size of markets, of course is extremely difficult and highly speculative, given the way the money was allocated. If you look at the recovery act, the funding is allocated through various programs and then each department will manage th

International Trade committee  Estimates.... We've attempted to look at how to find information. We've looked at various sources of information, but actual estimates are very difficult to come to.

International Trade committee  On specific contracts, we would have to look at every single department and agency to see which contracts come up, and this we would only find out after they've been reported.

International Trade committee  As I said, the information that we have that's available is extremely difficult to put together, and it's--

International Trade committee  We've attempted to put estimates together, but the information that we have is really how the U.S. is allocating funding. It's not what kinds of contracts or what kinds of markets we would access.

International Trade committee  Pretty much, because what we have is the allocation that the U.S. is giving to the various programs. Also, if you look at how Canadian companies participate in contracts in the U.S., they're often suppliers to main contractors. So those transactions are based in the private mar

International Trade committee  All we have is the information that is found in the recovery act, as I mentioned, which allocates the funding to various programs, and what is available on the transparency websites of the U.S. government.

International Trade committee  Well, that's the information that's available. For the reason I explained before, it's very difficult to go beyond that information because it's not reported or calculated in ways that we can manage from a traditional economic perspective.