Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Well, I'd love to see where a recommendation was made in this House that everybody in this government should have the same type of computer. I have no argument with economy and efficiency. I think that's exactly what we need to have. But we don't know whether or not that $100,000 has cost us six jobs. If it did, we'd be money ahead spending it. So unless the department is working hand in glove with the Department of Finance to examine in a macro-economic way what the impact is of the government's spending, I don't know that anybody can answer that question.
I don't disagree that we need to be economically efficient. I think we should. But in my experience, and I don't claim to be an expert when it comes to computers, but I have experience with 30 or 40 of them, and I have lots of different brands that work together very well. I've had different operating systems that worked together very well. So for me, it's really difficult to understand why we can't say that you have to get your specs in order, put out an RFP or a tender, and part of the conditions are that the system has to work when it's installed and has to do what it's supposed to do, and then let's see what Northerners can do. But I don't think at anywhere in this House there's ever been somebody saying that we should buy only one type of computer. At least it certainly wasn't something that I recall being discussed. I would say, from what I've seen of the computer market, there are all sorts of hardware out there that will deliver the same sort of performance. One day one brand is better than the next, and it's really hard to stay on top of which one is the best, but we should be buying whatever is the best on whatever given day the tender or RFP comes out. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.