Mr. Chair, they're not uncommon on major procurement projects when your procurement officials are dealing with sensitive commercial information, financial information provided by proponents or suppliers, as well as national security information.
In terms of the work being done this past summer, where the government said it wanted to update its information from various suppliers, an interdepartmental tiger team was pulled together from Defence, Public Services, Justice, ISED, and in going out to the companies, as well as to our allies, we were going to be collecting commercially sensitive financial information, as well as classified sensitive security information from the U.S. and other partners. The non-disclosure agreements were signed by the members of the team to make sure they understood their responsibilities in protecting that information.