Thank you, Mrs. Fraser, for being with us here today.
My concern today relates to an issue that we discussed in this committee when you appeared back in the 38th Parliament. Whenever there's a large expenditure of taxpayers' dollars, there's always the concern about fraud. The fraud involving the accused Paul Champagne, Hewlett-Packard, and DND is alleged to have been one of the largest frauds in the history of the federal government, and bigger than the sponsorship scandal. It has been stated in the media that perhaps it was with an eye toward future contracts that Hewlett-Packard made good on the missing millions.
Your comment last time in the committee was that the government did recoup its lost millions and it was more or less the end of the story and you weren't concerned any more. With this media observation in mind—the potential for padding future contracts—would your audit be able to determine whether contracts are being padded or sole-sourced when the policy is competitive bidding?