Evidence of meeting #109 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was company.
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Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
Are you saying that when the contracts were established for ArriveCAN and so forth, you weren't part of those discussions?
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Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
You are the chief security officer, so it is part of your responsibility to vet the subcontractors, as I understand. Is that what you're saying?
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Partner, GC Strategies
Yes, that's correct. I would have processed the security clearances for any resource that worked under those contracts.
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Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
In order for them to be eligible to work on these contracts, they had to go through you.
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Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
Did you have contact with individuals in government in regard to these contracts—
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Liberal
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Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
Who are the resources in government that you would have had contact with?
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Partner, GC Strategies
Oh, I didn't have contacts within the government for their resources. When I say “resources”, I mean our contractors.
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Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
When Kristian Firth sourced a contract in government, a substantive one at that, your involvement was only to make sure that subcontractors were eligible. Is that what you're saying?
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Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
You had no engagement with the civil service at all.
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Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
But you do have contacts and relationships with other civil servants in other contracts.
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Partner, GC Strategies
Yes. I have contracts that are not related to this study, this....
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Liberal
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Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
What was the last contract you had with the Government of Canada that you can recall?
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Partner, GC Strategies
They were all suspended on.... I believe it was on February 14. That was the last contract we had. We let everybody that we had know that they were no longer able to work under those contracts.
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Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
How many people were employed or contracted through this process that you worked with? How many subcontractors did you deal with?
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Liberal
Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON
You had 200 individuals who were contracted on your behalf to do work for the Government of Canada through the procurement process.