Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, Canadians have been rightly shocked and horrified as the details of the botched ArriveCAN procurement have been made public.
One aspect that I think seems particularly egregious to people is the charging of commissions by contractors who do very little work, if any.
I thought this was illustrated best by some communication that came out through the investigation by Botler, the IT company from Montreal. They describe a phone call with the principal of GC Strategies in which he talks about CBSA essentially rolling out this particular IT product to the rest of the government's departments and that a 15% commission would be charged by his company, something that he laughed at, and he said that the higher pricing would “suck for Canada”.
Do you agree that charging those kinds of commissions sucks for Canada?