Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Madam Auditor General, notwithstanding the glaring mismanagement that you have pointed out and the gross waste of taxpayers' money, we continue to be deeply concerned with what we believe may be corruption within the department when it comes to the awarding of contracts. In the course of our study of ArriveCAN—and I'll perhaps follow up on what my colleague Mr. Bachrach was questioning you about—we have had extensive issues with scrutinizing subcontractors. We know that we do not have the ability to scrutinize them in the same way that we do contractors. We have also learned from departments that the scrutiny of these subcontractors is far less strenuous than that of contractors.
In paragraph 1.53 of your report, you mention, “We also found a situation where the agency reached out to a firm—one that did not have a contract with the agency—to complete work on ArriveCAN. A few days later, the firm's resources were added to a task authorization under a contract with GC Strategies.”
This is concerning. It would seem like a ploy to allow GC Strategies to get a cut for the work done by this new resource by putting them on a task authorization underneath GC Strategies and reducing oversight.
Can you tell us the name of the firm you referenced in this paragraph?