Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, Minister, Mr. Gallivan and Ms. O'Gorman.
I'd like to come back to the famous contracts.
Minister, in your opening remarks you referred to the four initial contracts. Of these, three have been completed and one has been terminated before work has begun.
The committee made an access to information request about the contracts, but, as you can see, the documents we received were redacted. In other words, we have no access to any information about the contracts awarded to McKinsey.
From 2016 onwards, there was an explosion in the number of contracts awarded to McKinsey, which everyone found very strange. You said that the first contract, worth $1.9 million, was entered into between May and October, 2016, and was regarding the Canada Border Services Agency's Assessment and Revenue Management project. Data was sought from McKinsey on how to proceed with billing.
Why don't the documents the committee receives contain this information? Is it because the information involves national security?