How can you say that, Minister, when your Department of National Defence chose to work with a company that ousted Saudi dissidents, including one who fled to Canada and, as a result, his brother was imprisoned? How can you say that?
You spent millions on McKinsey to have them do work on, as you say, improving “culture”. How is having a company that works with Russia and that works with China—who are meeting today, by the way—that has corporate retreats next to internment camps and that ousts dissidents of dictatorship regimes producing recommendations positive for a culture that you're responsible for?
McKinsey was, in fact, the project lead for the Canadian joint operations command. Why would we want a company that has been working with our adversaries providing recommendations to the Canadian joint operations command? It's the organization and the leadership that has oversight for our entire armed forces, Minister.
Why would you and your department make these choices?