We know there have been many cases of sole-sourcing, but I appreciate that we've established...and Mr. Pickersgill, I think, would be someone worth bringing to the committee.
Mr. Barton, following the initial invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2014 and during your tenure at McKinsey, McKinsey continued to work closely with Russian banks and state-affiliated companies, including those that were subject to western sanctions. McKinsey was doing work for National Defence in Canada and the United States and other western countries while it was also cultivating a close relationship with authoritarian powers—Russia, China and Saudi Arabia. Can you assure this committee that analysts working for National Defence did not also participate in any projects involving state-affiliated entities in Russia and China?