Thank you, Chair.
There's one thing that I'm quite struck by in today's hearing. We have Amazon, Microsoft and BDO here, three very large and serious companies. It's clear that you're taking this hearing seriously and that you've done a lot of detailed preparation. That's not an endorsement of everything you said necessarily, but you're clearly taking this seriously.
There is a stark contrast between your testimony and the testimony of GC Strategies and Dalian that we've heard before Parliament, two-person companies that specialize only in getting government contracts. They were completely unprepared. They were unable to answer critical questions and badly contradicted themselves, yet the government has gone to GC Strategies to do most of this project, mostly through sole-sourcing, and government officials at one point conspired with GC Strategies to get them parts of this deal. It seems like a big demonstration of problems in our procurement system that the government has repeatedly gone to GC Strategies and Dalian in spite of the obvious problems that have been well on display before committees.
I want to ask if each of you if your company would have had the capacity to build the ArriveCAN app yourself and, if you could have built all of it or at least done more of it, why didn't you? Why do you think it ended up that it was GC Strategies and Dalian instead of some of these names that Canadians would recognize?
We'll start with Microsoft on that. Be as quick as possible.