Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank our witnesses for joining us today for this really important conversation.
On July 28, 2022, the Minister of Public Safety stated that ArriveCAN was created for COVID. However, the RFPs long precede COVID, and the documentation the CBSA submitted to our committee stated that contracts used for the development of the ArriveCAN app were issued prior to the pandemic, some as early as 2017.
I'm wondering if you could describe for us the purpose of the contracts to MGIS and eight other vendors that began long before 2020.