Mr. Firth, I want to circle back on some numbers that we discussed in my last round.
You told this committee that you and your partner put in about 30 to 40 hours per month over two years and that your take-home at the end of the whole ArriveCAN process was $2.5 million.
I think your figures understate the reality of how much you made. Your invoices don't line up with your own figures, and your figures don't match the Auditor General's.
I think the realities are understated by your numbers. Even if we take your numbers at face value, doing that math—say 40 hours per month over two years, leading to $2.5 million take-home—it would measure out that you earned about $2,600 per hour.
Sir, how do you justify to taxpayers that you, as a recruiter, were effectively billing them at over $2,500 per hour for your involvement in the ArriveCAN app?