Thank you for the question.
Mr. Chairman, I said earlier on that Treasury Board guidelines allow for the use of external help in putting requests for proposals together, or some assistance, for reasons of either workload or complexity. That's the point you made--complexity. It has to be done in a very structured fashion. This is where I think the OAG looked at this and felt that in this case, the way the people were involved was a conflict of interest.
In one case, there was a conflict of interest declaration made, but it was not to the right level. The Treasury Board provides a framework for that, and we did not follow that framework. The Auditor General picked that up, and she's right.