Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm last, but not least.
Minister and generals, thank you very much for being here today, and thank you for your service to our country. It is greatly appreciated.
Minister, I'm going to start with you.
You have one of the unique positions in this government as Minister of National Defence but also having served previously as minister of procurement. A lot of the questions that were flying at you today related to whether or not we should be doing business, as a government, with McKinsey. It's a legitimate question related to which companies should be excluded from doing business with the Government of Canada.
Currently, we have a policy related to who is excluded and who is not under our integrity regime. We may want to one day propose changes to that integrity regime. Again, that's something that this committee could look at. We could propose things, and I know that you would have your mind open to those changes. However, do you have the power in the defence department to exclude from bidding on contracts companies that are not excluded under the integrity regime?