Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here.
Mr. Wernick, I'm going to turn to you first, if that's okay.
Given that we've been diverted from what was, I think, a very important study on outsourcing and where we could limit outsourcing to better make use of our public service to a study about McKinsey and allegations of political interference, which continue to be debunked, since you were the Clerk of the Privy Council at the time that the contracts with McKinsey increased, I'd like to ask you this, sir. In the 2017, 2018 and 2019 period, did you ever get political instruction to increase the amount of contracts with McKinsey?