Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you to our witnesses for being here today. It actually seems to me that the opening statements reflect a lightness of the matter.
This is, in fact, a very grave matter before the House of Commons and before Canadians. In fact, I would say that this is a matter of importance that probably rivals any scandal in Canadian history. This is not to be taken lightly. This is not something that can be overcome with performance objectives, evaluations or managerial criteria. We have to get to the bottom of what happened, since the RCMP, of course, are currently investigating allegations of identity theft, forged resumés, contractual theft, fraudulent billing, price fixing and collusion in the creation of this $54-million app. This is a big deal.
As I mentioned when I moved the motion to extend this study, in the beginning this was an exercise in an attempt to find value for Canadians, which I remind everyone, some of the Liberals actually pooh-poohed and turned their noses at, as though there was nothing to see here. Now we know that things are so much different. It is now a quest to get to the truth, so that's what we're going to attempt to do here today.
In addition to me, you are going to have to face the prosecutor, Larry Brock, as well as my colleague, Garnett Genuis.
I'll start with my questions.
Mr. Doan, what was your relationship to John Ossowski at CBSA?