Thank you for your question.
As I mentioned in my testimony, there are loopholes in the Financial Administration Act and the related regulations that allow for sole-source contracting. I think this process was a failure also of the public service. As many experts have pointed out, several other organizations, if they had been given a full chance, could have put forward a proposal that would have certainly matched WE Charity's proposal to administer this program. Several organizations have greater reach than WE Charity. As we've learned most recently, they can't operate in Quebec and have no real presence there at all, so how would they ever be chosen to run a national program? But in other ways, other groups had just as much reach as they had.
Frankly, as I pointed out, no one should forget that the Canada summer jobs program and the Canada youth service corps program should have just been expanded to incorporate this program. That was the best way to do it. There was no reason to contract out and waste tens of millions of dollars of the public's money.