Mr. John O'Brien:

I can only speak in terms of our own individual group and in relation to our own industry. By our calculations, our group represents approximately 150 employees in total. We then add some of our individual businesses; for them, 50% to 60% of their business is predicated on securing local contracts with small schools, the local VEC or the local secondary school.

The industry as a whole would employ approximately 3,000 people nationally. We do not want to restrict it purely to the copier suppliers. For every batch of 3,000 people involved in copier supplies, there are 3,000 people in stationery, ICT consumables and so forth. Tens of thousands of jobs are at risk.