Irek Kusmierczyk at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On November 7th, 2023. See this statement in context.

November 7th, 2023 / 5:10 p.m.

Liberal

Irek Kusmierczyk Liberal Windsor—Tecumseh, ON

Okay.

I understand that whenever contracts are issued, there are layers of approvals, I imagine. It's not that President Ossowski, Mr. Utano or Mr. MacDonald writes a cheque to Botler AI; there are layers of approvals. Can you speak to some of those layers? Were they implemented in this case? Knowing that it was a national emergency, were those still applicable in this case?

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