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It is Treasury Board's responsibility under the Financial Administration Act to approve contracts of this scope. It had never been brought before the final arbiter of the taxpayers' dollars, the Treasury Board, which is a cabinet committee of ministers. In our government it requires elected officials to make the decision. There are groups that put forward submissions to Treasury Board; Treasury Board is not a rubber stamp. Just because officials in any given department might give a green light to a project, it is ultimately, under the Financial Administration Act, Treasury Board, a committee of elected representatives--