Mr. Wright, on January 22, 2007, following a meeting with the minister's former chief of staff, Mike Giles, from your department, wrote to Mr. McLaughlin and told him, with reference to the pursuit of tailoring the contract for Mr. MacPhie,
Communications is a fairly widely available commodity, and therefore, it would be difficult to come up with a reasonable rationale that would allow you to proceed on a sole-source basis.
It goes on to warn Mr. McLaughlin that a contract of this nature typically undergoes significant scrutiny.