I'll be brief, but it's directly relevant to your question.
One of the things we did in responding to the pandemic was to have a call to action for Canadian industries and companies that wished to help out. In that call, almost 200 digital service firms and software firms, large and small companies, large multinationals, and SMEs, stepped forward and made offers to provide assistance pro bono. Palantir was one of these large companies that stepped forward.
We actually met with more than 60. In fact, there were so many offers that I actually designated a couple of staff to just follow up with each of the groups that came to us. For example, when I was initially contacted by Palantir, I passed it off to this group that I had created. We were actually meeting with many firms, and not just software companies, but manufacturing operations and other organizations, and even distilleries that wanted to make hand sanitizers.
The attitude was “leave no stone unturned”. If companies were coming and saying they thought they could offer something, we certainly were willing to hear them out. That's what we did with Palantir. I and my staff attended a meeting with some of the staff from Palantir to assess their offer.