Thank you, Chair.
Thank you again to the witnesses. This really is some of the craziest stuff we've ever heard at this committee, and that's saying something because we've heard some pretty wild things at this committee.
I do want to say that you were asked questions by Mr. Kusmierczyk about corruption. Obviously, you're not prosecutors or police officers, but I think it's very clear that activities like doctoring résumés in order to get contracts would constitute fraud. It would constitute criminal activity, and it would definitely constitute corruption. It's interesting that Liberals want to weasel out of that. I won't press you on that point, because I understand it's not your area of expertise.
I want to ask about the so-called experience criteria. The way the system is structured as you describe it is that people who bid for many of these contracts have to have done work for the Government of Canada before. You might have a better product. You might have more experience working with other clients, other governments or other private sector clients, but if you don't have the direct experience of working for the federal government, then you get cut out on that basis. This means you have a system where you have to be an insider to get the work. The same insider contractors get recycled over and over again by virtue of the fact that the rules specifically require you to be an insider. This severely narrows the band of who can bid to specific existing insider companies.
How is this remotely defensible?