It's not accurate.
First, we never had the authority to make the decision. We presented options. If we had had the authority to make the decision, why would we have presented options in the first place?
Second, we presented evidence to this committee and to the Auditor General on who made the decision.
Third, what she was referring to, I believe, was a requisition. A requisition is step one of six in contracting, but that starts only after a decision is rendered.
I'm going to repeat this. Once the decision was made by the VP, Minh Doan, and the president to move forward with GC Strategies, we were then told to execute and move forward.