Thank you, Chair.
To be really clear, this report was initiated by the revelation of the sudden sharp increase in the amount that McKinsey received in contracts once this Liberal government took power. I'll reiterate that from 2011 to 2015, McKinsey received $8.6 million in contracts. From 2015 onwards, under this Liberal government, they received $191 million, a much higher number than was previously reported. While I agree that it is perhaps a bellwether of what is happening across departments writ large when it comes to blatant disregard for the rules when it comes to contracting, we did see a very sharp increase in contracts to one individual company.
Prior to this audit, we found out there was a personal connection between McKinsey and the Liberals. In fact, it was Dominic Barton, the head of McKinsey, who was the brain behind the creation of the Canada Infrastructure Bank. You found in your audit that the Canada Infrastructure Bank gave two contracts to McKinsey with no evaluation criteria in the request for bids or in those evaluations.
Did the Canada Infrastructure Bank have any explanation for this?