Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to acknowledge that this meeting is taking place on the traditional unceded territory of the Qayqayt and Coast Salish peoples.
Thank you for being with us, Ms. Maynard.
We know that the use of subcontractors has been growing for many years. Under the Harper government, the number of subcontracts doubled. Under the current government, the number of subcontracts quadrupled. That is indicative of a lack of transparency and abuse of the system. We saw it under the Harper government, with the whole scandal over the Phoenix pay system and the engineering and technical support services. Now we are seeing it again, with ArriveCAN, unfortunately.
Given that we've seen this massive increase in contracting out, both under the Conservatives and now under the Liberals, I wanted to ask you, to start.... You did mention that a number of complaints have come in regarding ArriveCAN. I'm wondering to what extent you're receiving complaints about government procurement in general, and particularly in relation to contracting out, and can you also share with us the number of complaints that you have received on ArriveCAN?