Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I will address you again, Mr. Thompson.
Earlier, you talked about contracts awarded for surveys, for which McKinsey collects data. You said that those data were then used to design other tools, complete other analyses and so on.
Can you explain to me why we pay to have surveys conducted, but we don't pay for the data collected, which belongs to our constituents and the public service, to be considered the property of the Government of Canada rather than McKinsey's?
Right now, it's as if McKinsey is trying to influence Canada to get contracts by saying that the methods they use belong to them. After all, they are quantitative methods.
It's also an attempt to suggest that the public service is in the Stone Age. That's what we heard on our committee last week. I can't believe that no one in the public service is capable of using quantitative methods and compiling and analyzing data. I've been trying to figure it out since earlier, but I can't get my head around it.