The limits we have, and specifically the limit Mr. Holland was talking about, that CSIS is excluded and that Parliament is excluded.... When the Federal Accountability Act was passed, one section of the Federal Accountability Act allowed the government to develop regulations that could limit the departments we could go to.
The Federal Accountability Act that was discussed specifically had an amendment in it, under which they were allowed to define which departments we could go to and which we couldn't go to.
The second issue to remember is that the CITT already had amended where people could go with complaints on the larger contracts--anything over $100,000 for services, anything over $25,000 for goods. So our mandate was to fill the void that was there, fill a gap that was there that the CITT could not cover. The limitation on the dollars we can deal with are only for contract awards; they are not for complaints about contract administration. In the proactive part of our mandate, where we will do practice reviews, there is no limitation except for the departments that are excluded.
I have to come back and say these are policy matters. Why were they there? Who thought of them? What was the discussion? We were not part of that, and I can't really comment on that aspect.