Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Mr. Powell, for being here today.
I think it's important again to put our meeting today into the context of the mandate of this committee in terms of government operations and estimates, procurement, and those kinds of things. The study we're doing now is trying to ensure that taxpayers are getting good value for money, that suppliers are dealt with fairly, and so on.
Recently we met with the ombudsman as well as the CITT. From those discussions, it appeared to me that we have a system in place that does monitor the process. And the Auditor General was recently asked by this committee to do a study on this TPG file, and she indicated there were presently a number of processes in place to examine the circumstances surrounding individual cases, such as this internal review and the CITT. I guess I would just echo her sentiments at this point and note that I feel there are systems in place to care for that.
I want to go back to a question that my colleague asked you earlier in terms of the number of contracts you previously had and currently hold with the government. You indicated you were unable to give us even an idea of the number of contracts.