Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think it's fair to say that the concern many of us had about national security exceptions was that they could prevent an open and competitive process, so I appreciate that in your presentations you've made the point that even where the national security exception is invoked, there still can be a competitive process.
To explore that a little more, I'd like to raise one of the specific procurements that motivated me to suggest that our committee study this matter. There was a supercomputer for Environment Canada to make weather forecasts. I think it cost about a billion dollars. It was procured through Shared Services. I think there probably was some kind of competitive process because part of the way we know about it is that one of the companies that might have been interested in supplying the computer wasn't successful. I wonder, Mr. Breton, if you can talk to us a little about that specific case, given that it was such a major procurement where the national security exemption was used.