Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the officials for joining us today.
Ms. Carruthers, it was very interesting that you noted this was a proactive decision by the department. As I was reading the report that, again, your department put out proactively, I noticed the number 8,000, which was already mentioned, and a sample size of 100, with you looking at how many vendors were awarded contracts—there was competition—and how many were not. We'll get to that later, but as I was going through these numbers and thinking about the period from 2018 to 2023, I noticed that the world has gone through a lot since then. What came to my mind immediately was the list of events that have happened in the world since then and even before that [Technical difficulty—Editor]—