Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I also thank you for being with us today, Madam Minister.
I know that English is your first language and the one that you feel the most comfortable in, so I will continue with that.
Minister, you and your office were asked by this committee to provide materials to this committee, and we gave you a deadline of Tuesday to do so, to provide it to us, so we would have it in time in both official languages. You provided this information to us yesterday, well in advance of Tuesday's deadline. I would like to just thank you for doing so, because it makes our jobs that much easier to be able to have materials in front of us to make this evaluation.
Minister, you spent a bit of time on your opening statement. You also spent some time answering the questions from my colleagues. I would like to ask you a more precise question.
When the deputy minister came before this committee, he suggested that there could be additional training for staff who are involved in the contracting process. What do you think of that recommendation? Can you please be specific as to how we can make sure that the verifications now, going forward, will happen without conflicts of interest coming up again?