Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's going to be very difficult to keep it brief. Most of us have spent all or at least a major part of the weekend trying to understand all of this. Then this morning we ended up with additional reading material at the last minute. But so be it.
Mr. Bélair, we know that your company had been awarded the pilot project, the first contract that we will call “contract No. 1” in 1999. In 2002, the contract that we will call “contract No. 2” was awarded to you. Following that, there were things like cruises, golf parties, all kinds of circumstances that made the government decide to annul contract No. 2 and put out a new invitation to tender.
Did your company have anything to do, directly or indirectly, with these cruises, golf parties or other advantages?