The Canada Border Services Agency does issue contracts when internal resources are not able to meet the business case needs of the organization. Throughout the course of my introductory remarks, I laid out the process by which those needs are articulated, through which objective criteria are set and through which external bidders are able to compete for that contract for which there are appropriate protocols and processes in place to ensure transparency.
That is a process that is not carried out in a partisan way but rather by our independent, non-partisan professional public servants. Today I'm here to answer questions about those four contracts awarded to McKinsey by the CBSA.