You begin with the notion that in this case, in the NCPC you had an officer—I believe it was Mr. Crupi—whose own organization wouldn't put through the contract he wanted put through. That's the first thing.
Why was that? It was because they didn't agree that these were legitimate contracts. The people working had run out of options for legal contracting according to the Treasury Board rules, so they said to him no, we can't do this for you. He came to Public Works, our main contracting function, and our staff told him they weren't prepared to simply issue contracts to the people he wanted, that it had to be a competitive process. He then ran out of that option and was told—I don't know by whom—that there's this organization in Consulting and Audit Canada where, if you have problems of this kind, they'll facilitate the process for you.
He gets hold of Mr. Brazeau, who then by some means or the other, in the sense of however the various RFPs were run or bids evaluated, magically ends up with the very names that were required by the client.
In my books, that's just rigged, and it's not allowed. I don't care who says whether they—You've just heard Mr. Brazeau say he never put any contracts through, or something to that effect. Yes, it's true there was a contract processing unit within Consulting and Audit Canada, but the manager who referred these things to be put into contracts was Mr. Brazeau, so he was the individual who managed the process of facilitating these contracts. That's how I see it.