Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses for being here today. We hope your families are safe and healthy.
I'm going to start with you, Mr. Aylward. Thank you very much to all the public servants across the country, who are doing such amazing work in the midst of this pandemic.
Mr. Aylward, I'll start off with a very simple question. One of the very worrisome aspects of this case is that WE submitted a proposal the same day that it was announced. High-level public servants—Ms. Wernick, in her testimony last week—said that they were unaware of the details of the program, yet WE was able to submit something the very same day it was announced by the Prime Minister.
In your experience with public servants, have you ever seen a case in which an organization submits the very day that the details become public?