Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
I'm going to continue on that point because I'm concerned about it and I'm not quite clear on the answers that have been given.
There were four specific examples in which the work was completed prior to the security clearances being issued. In these 24 contracts requiring a secret level of security clearance, the contractors had been awarded the security clearance before this had been done. That is very concerning, and I'm not hearing a lot about how you're going to rectify it. Mr. Christopher rightly asked what could have happened after they awarded this. Yes, they all received security clearance, but what happens if there had been issues? In four cases the work had already been completed, so those issues would only have been caught after the work was completed and everything was done.
This is very serious. It deeply concerns me, and I haven't really heard clearly, Mr. Guimont, how we're going to make sure it doesn't happen again, or a proper addressing of how it could have been allowed to occur in the first place.