Mr. Chair, I think that's a good question.
The assessment started with Global Affairs. Global Affairs assessed this procurement in a way that complied with policy. The procurement started without us requesting a national security exemption. Now, whether or not a national security exemption would have led us to a different outcome is another question. I can't speculate whether it would have.
It does start with the assessment, at the beginning, of whether or not this conformed with policy. For whatever reason, it was the paradigm at the time. Those two questions, once they were answered, were deemed sufficient to go ahead with the procurement that resulted in Nuctech getting the standing offer.
On review, we stopped it.