No, no.
Through the bureaucracy, the Government of Canada will qualify an agency to do business with the government. In order to do that, you have to have a competition, and there's a selection committee, and so on. The political system has never been involved in that, except in the case of Paul Martin's office.
I found out about another one that came to my attention during the Gomery commission. On March 20, 1995, Madame Bourgon, who was the Clerk of the Privy Council, recommended to Monsieur Chrétien that he approve the dispersement of $100,000 to two advertising agencies with well-known Liberal affiliation, for the period leading up to the Quebec referendum. There was no prior call for tender, and they were treated as advertising disbursements.
So I found out at the Gomery commission that the Prime Minister's Office was directly involved in selecting agencies. But if I had known that when I came—