You made a point of mentioning the success of your business. Congratulations on your success.
In my questions to the minister, I spoke about the challenges that small businesses were facing and the perception that Canadians have about an occurrence like this. The judgment that the commissioner made was strictly with respect to the scope of his mandate, on the Conflict of Interest Act, and he deemed that the act was broken, that that law was broken.
Do you appreciate why some Canadians would be upset that a contract for tens of thousands of dollars was given to a close friend of a federal cabinet minister?