Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Maynard, for joining us today. It's good to see my committee members as well. Most of us are joining from across the country. I'm here from unceded Wolastoqiyik territory in New Brunswick.
I appreciate very much your opening comments as well, the idea that of course the pandemic is not an excuse to not do our due diligence to cut corners, but the contrary. I really appreciate, again, that you reinforced time and time again the need to carefully document any decisions, particularly during a time of crisis.
That's led us here. We've had a very in-depth discussion about what has transpired, which has certainly been a lot since the last time you might have been before a parliamentary committee three years ago.
I was also disappointed with what the Auditor General found. Of course, she put forward eight recommendations. They've been accepted. I look forward to their being implemented. Also, the Office of the Procurement Ombud put forward a procurement practice review that also had 13 recommendations.
I would like to ask you something in reflection of that review. The Office of the Procurement Ombud procurement practice review—it's a mouthful— found that the proactive publication information was missing for 17 of 41 contracts, and that's 41%. In these 17 cases, either the original contract or one or more contract amendments valued at more than $10,000 were not available on the Open Government website. What are the consequences for Canadians when contract information is not proactively disclosed?