Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for joining us today.
I'm not a regular member of the public accounts committee. Rather, I serve on the government operations and estimates committee and had the opportunity to hear from both of you in the very recent past.
After your appearance at the government operations and estimates committee, Mr. Jeglic, the Auditor General tabled her report. In it, she found that GC Strategies was involved in the development of the criteria for the contract, which you termed in your report—and mentioned again today—as “overly restrictive and favoured this existing CBSA supplier”.
Two weeks ago, I sent your office a letter regarding this new discovery in the Auditor General's report related to the $25.3-million contract awarded to GC Strategies back in May 2022. As I indicated in my letter, I wanted your office and you to investigate these findings and verify who allowed this private contractor to sit at the table and develop the criteria for a contract they were obviously going to win.
Will you undertake to investigate these findings and table the results with this committee?