I think you should know that I spent 15 years in this business, and my whole focus was always doing what's best to meet the needs of the military, and do things in an open, fair, and transparent way. I don't think in the whole time I was at Public Works or National Defence ministers got castigated in public for how they did things. I can't recall. Maybe I'm wrong, and I'm sure Mr. Hawn might have examples of that. But I was always there to protect the minister, and say to the minister, “Do things the right way. Go through the front door; it's always better than going through the side door.” I found that ministers, after much discussion, very often would generally agree with that point of view.
So I'm a person who is really high on integrity, and especially when dealing with the public purse. Scandals abound all over, in every facet, when you do things contractually that are not open, fair, and transparent. The RCMP is the most recent example.