I think there were a number of factors that we understood played into the evaluation through the CEPS vehicle—the COVID emergency professional services—to begin with, and then the subsequent awarding of the TA to KPMG.
As I did mention, I have over 25 years of very in-depth direct experience in working with the health system in Canada in bringing that expertise forward and in particular in working with public health agencies around the country to help respond to the very critical role that the Public Health Agency was playing at that time, not only to monitor the COVID pandemic but also to put interventions in place to limit and contain the spread of the COVID virus, particularly focused on the important disease factor, which was, at that time, international travellers.
Because KPMG has such an extensive international network of colleagues around the world in similar federal government, provincial government, municipal government and health systems and public health roles, we were able to contact our colleagues around the world in a manner that I think the Public Health Agency just simply wasn't able to do as fast as we could.
I will add, further to the member's question, that we have tremendous respect for all the employees we worked with at the Public Health Agency. As you said, it was an incredibly stressful time for everybody, and I think we all felt extremely proud. Our team in particular felt extremely proud to be able to support the government and Canadians during this incredibly difficult time.