Mr. Minh Doan at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On November 14th, 2023. See this statement in context.

November 14th, 2023 / 12:40 p.m.

Chief Technology Officer of the Government of Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat

To be clear, I don't know who contacted whom first. At that time, as CIO, I was getting approached by every single vendor—like IBM, Accenture and others—with offers to help deal with this global pandemic.

Did Deloitte reach out to Mr. MacDonald? Did Mr. MacDonald reach out to Deloitte? This was happening so fast that I'm not sure anybody knows for sure.

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