Thank you, Chair.
I would encourage Canadians who contact the offices of government members to be respectful, polite and gracious, but also to criticize in a respectful and principled way the profound failures of this government. I don't think there is anything wrong with criticizing the actions or conduct of members who merit that criticism in this arrive scam scandal.
I have a quick question for Mr. Huppé.
Clearly a lot went wrong with arrive scam. You said that we don't need new rules, and that procurement is already complex enough. I think it's too complex, actually. The problem we have is that this government builds highly complex systems that end up masking corruption or direct accountability. It seems as though it has set up a false choice: Either the system stays as it is, or we add additional rules that will make it more complex. Isn't the alternative to fix the system, so it's simpler and has clear lines of accountability, so that we can actually identify and hold accountable individuals who engage in corrupt actions?