Thank you, Chair.
We've established that this government had a structural favouritism for McKinsey in terms of its contracting. Now, that exists in a context of—we've discussed it at this committee—some of the real, horrific abuses that have happened at the hands of McKinsey: advice related to supercharging the opioid crisis; advice on how to identify influential dissidents of the Saudi regime; some of the state-owned companies in the PRC that McKinsey did work for; continuing work for the Government of Russia following the initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014; and advising employees about not participating in pro-democracy activities in Russia, for instance.
There are many of these different issues, so I'm grappling with this reality of deeply unethical behaviour by McKinsey and, at the same time, how it was favoured by the Government of Canada. Did you look at all at the relationship between ethical conduct and favouritism for a company? It's one thing for decisions to be made about a company being excluded or not. It's a whole other thing about a company that behaves in the way McKinsey does actually being favoured by the Government of Canada.