Okay, but it seems to me it just makes common sense that the Department of National Defence would put forward the request that there be a national security exemption, not the Department of Public Works.
So my question is the same question I asked on Tuesday really. What was the process in determining that this contract should be let under a national security exemption? What was the rationale for that? And is the minister correct in saying that DND was not really the initiator of that process? What is the qualification? What are the standards? What is the qualification for determining a national security exemption?