Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Palter, for being here today.
I'm sure you saw in the budget yesterday that the government spent $21.4 billion on outsourced consulting, so it is of significant concern, not only for the official opposition, but for Canadians.
I'm sure you saw that on Friday the government did release some audit reports on their work with McKinsey. There were, in fact, some problems with the procurement process relative to the contracts that were awarded to your company at that time.
I'm going to go back now to a previous witness we had, Mr. Dominic Barton. In documents provided to this committee, we were made aware that Mr. Barton was brought in for a working session with the Canada Infrastructure Bank in July 2020. This was after he had left McKinsey. He was Canada's ambassador to China at that time.
When Mr. Barton appeared at the committee in February, he claimed he had no involvement with any of the McKinsey contracts with the Government of Canada.
Can you tell the committee which contracts McKinsey had with the government since 2015 that Dominic Barton was involved with in any way, including as the global managing partner of McKinsey or during his employment with McKinsey? Since you've been with the company for more than two decades, as you've indicated, I'm sure you would have a record of this.