With regard to resources to get people paid who earned their wages, you work alongside them and you're one of them. I thank you for your work, and I hope that if any of you are owed money, you get paid before we start going after those who were overpaid.
I really appreciate that you're going to make recommendations to the minister through Treasury Board Secretariat on things that you can do around outsourcing.
The first question I have is on the commissions. As we learned through the ArriveCAN and GC Strategies fiasco, with the amount of commissions at 15% to 30%, GC Strategies, a two-person outfit with no staff and no office, which had about $55 million in overall government contracts, would have netted at least $11 million if they were around the 20% mark. This is outrageous. They then subcontracted to other outsourcing companies, and some of them have even taken commissions. One deputy minister who was here actually said there's no limit to the amount of commissions being paid.
Have you made a recommendation to the minister to put a cap on commissions?
If you could cut outsourcing by 4.2%—the PBO even agreed with me—that would cover the whole cost of extending the CEBA loan program. It would support 250,000 businesses that closed their doors to protect public health, for one more year, so that they can get through the next year with a recession and dealing with an inflation crisis.
Is that something you're going to make a recommendation on?