I have a point of order, Mr. Chair.
I have a document I'd like to table here. It's from Blacklock's Reporter, and it's titled “Audit Contracts Questioned”. The piece says:
The Commons public accounts committee yesterday questioned the Auditor General’s Office over favouritism in contracting to a Liberal lobbyist, Susan Smith.... MPs did not comment after the committee spent more than an hour behind closed doors questioning Auditor General Karen Hogan....
As you know, Mr. Chair, it is not common for independent, non-partisan officers of Parliament to give untendered contracts to partisan lobbyists—