Let me start, and then I'll turn to my colleague to add some remarks.
I read that with grave concern. It's in the report, and certainly we wanted to work with the ombudsman to unpack it.
When you think of procurement strategies that change, sometimes a client comes and they don't know the procurement world. They don't know what the correct or best method of supply is. At the same time, we're trying to change how we do procurement. We want to move away from task-based procurement, where you're asking someone to produce one, two and three tasks, to solutions-based procurement, where they're providing the government with a turnkey solution: this is our opportunity, and this is our problem.
There are always lots of moving pieces. Each individual procurement has a procurement plan that gets locked in when they go into the solicitation. Until then, things are moving back and forth, and they are fluid. It's being shaped to provide the best output for Canadians.
I'm going to stop here and see if Dominic—