Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have to say I'm a little uncomfortable with the amount of rationalization after the fact, particularly because we didn't see this in any of the communications and the many e-mails we got about the reasons why. In fact, this committee is meeting today because there is a big question mark about the reasons why this happened.
If Mr. Christopherson might do something in a bipartisan way with me, could he just raise up that process sheet once more?
The other thing we haven't considered is that I can only imagine the hundreds of thousands of dollars it costs taxpayers for Public Works and Government Services to go through to make sure that the tendering process is legitimate. No one can say what is the dollar value of the reduced public trust when you do something like this, when there are multiple tenders and you don't give those other tenders the same consideration you did to Place Victoria, where they changed the game to allow them to resubmit some numbers.
I would like to ask you, Madam Cochrane, how long did you serve in the public service?