Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for their contribution to this important study.
Paragraph 1.51 of the Auditor General's report reads as follows:
We found that Public Services and Procurement Canada, as the government's central purchasing and contracting authority, challenged the Canada Border Services Agency for proposing and using non-competitive processes for ArriveCAN and recommended various alternatives. These alternatives included running a shorter competitive process (for example, 10 days) or incorporating shorter contract periods with a non-competitive approach.
You confirmed that for us in your opening remarks.
We know that Public Services and Procurement Canada had challenged certain actions taken by the Canada Border Services Agency with respect to ArriveCAN, but we had no access to the emails.
At a previous committee meeting, we were told that we could have access to the emails for 30 days. However, yesterday, a representative of the Treasury Board Secretariat suggested we could have access for six months.
Can you confirm for us how long we can have access to those deleted emails for?