Mr. Jonathan O'Hara:

I will start with the answer and then maybe defer to my colleagues. The answer is "No". The committee has heard us talk about how different the different parts of Canada are. We are talking not just about the provincial governments but also about provincial agencies, hospitals and so on. Canada is just too federated to be able to do that efficiently. There are some moves in that direction. There has been some discussion of having a national procurement dispute regulator. Currently, there is a federal one, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, which is very well respected. There have been discussions about the provinces getting on board and having the federal regulator take over authorisation with respect to the provinces, but that has been pretty tentative and is still at the discussion stage. I would flag that western Canada has a trade agreement that has a unified procurement dispute mechanism across multiple provinces. The new west trade partnership covers British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and they have unified some of their procurement issues but still not to a point where there is one system to which everybody in Canada uploads procurements, unfortunately.