I sincerely doubt, Madam Chair, that the minister would have been aware of this contract or would have been involved. I'm not sure people would say it's appropriate that the minister would become involved in these sorts of things. A tendering process was done by public servants. They believed the conditions and the requirements had been met, and the contract was awarded on that basis.
Public Works handles the procurement of almost all the departments of government. We're talking billions and billions of dollars every year. We could have a very long philosophical discussion about this.