Madame Faille has pointed out—and we in Public Works had a bit of the same frustration in the request for a business plan. In our committee, we had much discussion over whether the business rationale that PWGSC provided us was the same thing as a business plan. We certainly had much toing and froing in that discussion.
But I will say that one of the reasons we had asked for the business plan was out of a concern that had been raised about bundling of contracts with regard to professional services. And when the department came out with a business rationale, it seemed to address, in fact, a number of those concerns, particularly the decision not to bundle, in particular, with professional services.
My question, though, is this: were the participants in these consultations provided with a copy of the business rationale that we were provided with at committee, and if not, why not? But if so—