In particular, as part of that auditing process, you were looking at indigeneity, at whether these companies were actually indigenous. The department at some point decided that they did not want you looking at indigeneity.
A key issue here is misrepresentation of indigenous identity, meaning indigenous identity fraud by companies that are getting government contracts. They made a policy change to prevent external auditors from looking precisely at whether indigenous identity fraud was happening.
Why do you think they made that change?