Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I echo the comments of my colleagues in welcoming you here and thanking you very much for your service to our country.
Madam Minister, given your adamant defence of the need for and your choice of McKinsey, and given the insistence that the information you were sharing with McKinsey was not sensitive, that it was simply HR benchmarking or not sensitive subject matter in the contracts because it was not highly secretive, I want to show you one of the pages that we received as a committee. It's blank. That's because it's been redacted. This committee was very clear in its order for unredacted documents. However, many departments have made the decision and have taken it upon themselves to determine that they have the right to limit the powers of the House of Commons.
Minister, we received a letter from your department about the redactions made. I just showed you one page. I have more. They were made or done in the name of security, yet you have just stated here that these were not security matters. I'm wondering if you could explain why many of the redactions included the number of weeks McKinsey worked, their weekly pricing and descriptions of the services they offered. Who ordered these redactions? If it wasn't you, who was it and why?