Actually it does, Mr. Chair.
The supplementary estimates provide funding for those same offices, and as a result the minister is here. He's answering questions about all kinds of other expenditures that the government wants to talk about. This might not be an expenditure he wants to talk about but the committees don't exist to the pleasure of ministers.
I'll ask again. Have any offices that report to you as minister ever awarded contracts or paid work to companies in which you own shares?