Thank you.
I'm now going to go to Ms. Clarke for a couple of questions. I'll put some context around the question.
We are all aware that GC Strategies was chosen for a large part of the work on ArriveCAN. They testified that they were not tech experts or developers. What they did was build teams with the expertise to do this work. We know from them and from the government that they cannot reveal the identities of the subcontractors because of confidentiality provisions in federal procurement rules. It is somewhat astounding to me that we can have government contracts awarded to companies that then subcontract, and there's no way we can know who those subcontractors are, the work they did and how much they were paid.
You recommended increased transparency around federal contracting: that departments “should disclose IT and professional services contract costs (also per-vendor) associated with each IT project on an annual basis.”
Can you comment on the practice of procuring the services of a vendor who does not do the actual work, but then procures the services of subcontractors? We can have no information when it comes time to ensuring that Canadians are getting value for the money that is being spent.