Typically I would not expect ministers to be involved at all in procurement decisions that are made by departments. When we looked at these 97 contracts, we did not see ministerial involvement except for one where it was required by the rules. I would expect that PSPC would do a better challenge function in some of these contracts, and, in other areas that we saw, they did do a good challenge function.
I think ultimately it boils down to making sure that everyone who's involved in the procurement process understands the rules and applies them in a way to ensure fairness, transparency and good value for money for Canadians.