When we enter into contracts as a government, there are confidentiality agreements that are signed. Those confidentiality agreements, frankly, assure us the companies will sign contracts with us. If we didn't do it, we would do no business with anybody. It is an absolute requirement of our doing business, but what is important is that the public accounts committee and the Auditor General receive the full, unredacted documents. On the Auditor General—if you want to give me a moment—I can read what she said in explaining exactly.... The Auditor General said:
In such an environment, advance payments and obligations for minimum purchase were required. Furthermore, Canada had very limited domestic capacity to produce vaccines and therefore was reliant on international imported products.
She continued:
We found that, although a non-competitive approach was taken, Public Services and Procurement Canada exercised due diligence on the 7 vaccine companies by conducting assessments to examine the companies’—