Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister for being here. To your departmental officials, thank you so much for joining us today.
I'm going to circle back and try to catch up on a number things I wanted to ask about in a follow-up to some of the questions that my colleague asked.
The first would be in regard to the national security exception. I think it was noted that there was one national security exception applied in the process of the sole-source contracting. Can you tell me who determines the application of that national security exception? What was the justification for it in this circumstance?