Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for their attendance.
Earlier this week, the Auditor General, as you know, released a bombshell report exposing incompetence and corruption within the CBSA. I think the most glaring problem with this report is how the government, despite its promise in 2015 to reduce the use of external consultants and rely upon the professional public service.... We know that, over the years, it has increased the size of the public service by close to 40%.
How do you feel, as union leaders, and how does your membership feel, knowing that GC Strategies—a two-person firm working out of their basement with no IT experience—was simply connecting government with IT professionals? How do you feel about that egregious abuse of the expertise that your membership holds?