Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Giroux, you testified earlier that over $20 billion is being spent by this government on contracting out. Of that, your estimate was that about 10%, over $2 billion, is being spent on management consulting, and you're not able to identify, based on the available figures, how much is being spent on middlemen.
We've tried to dig into this in other places and in other committees. We've been able to identify that there are 635 staff augmentation firms. They are companies that don't actually perform IT work; they're IT staff augmentation firms. They receive contracts and subcontract.
The government was not able to provide information about the numbers of employees at those companies, and in how many cases they were like GC Strategies and were simply companies with two people or less.
Do you have any work going on or any ability to identify across 600 companies how much money we're talking about? This is just for paying middlemen for IT work. There are likely many other cases in which we're paying middlemen. Do you have any work going on or any ability to see how much money the government is spending on this multi-layered process of contracting to a contractor for contracting?