My colleague across the table, Mr. Sousa, stated that none of the work can be subject to price increases once it's assigned. It's just private companies negotiating over the slices of pie, and the government can't increase the task value once it's assigned.
That's clearly not true. We've seen task prices absolutely balloon after they are [Technical difficulty—Editor] Botler that when Dalian was brought in through a pass-through and demanded 15% for doing so, CBSA was pissed, is what he said, at the resulting price increase. That email is public.
I want to clarify all of this on the record because I find it very inaccurate and I want Canadians to hear the truth on this.