Thank you for the question.
This is a great question. I will start off by saying, as a premise, that the procurement process is probably one of the activities in the government today for which we have a set of processes and controls that are what I would consider very mature. We have a very impressive control framework around these activities that start and include what I'll call documentation, which is legislation, regulation, our policies and very detailed supply manuals that are available to everyone and are made public and available in a very transparent fashion.
We have a very professional workforce in the procurement community, which is governed by a learning curriculum of mandatory training they need to go through. Training is also mandatory for managers who manage these contracts, who are the clients of these contracts, to make sure the work gets performed and so on, and they're accountable in that process.
I have to say that the controls are also based on the premise of delegation. Everyone is accountable within the process, and it varies. In departments, for example, delegation instruments exist that will prescribe who has the authority to approve which types of contracts, whether competitive or non-competitive, different types of goods and so on.
From a disclosure perspective—and the minister alluded to it—we have proactive disclosure under which all contracts over $10,000 need to be disclosed.. The minister also indicated that we're piloting new sets of information that needs to be disclosed.