Thank you very much.
Gentlemen, thank you for appearing before us today.
I find it very disturbing that the cost that we in Canada spent amounts to a vast excess over what it has cost other countries to host meetings like this in the past. These are enormous costs that have been incurred at the expense of Canadian taxpayers.
But let me ask you a specific question. Just two weeks before the G-8 meeting, we read in the news that you hired Contemporary Security Canada, despite the fact that they were not even licensed to do work in Ontario. It was also reported, and acknowledged by government officials, that this problem was only discovered after the company had already been hired.
How did a company that wasn't even legally allowed to work in Ontario win a competitive bid to provide security at the G-8 and G-20 summits?