It's a policy disagreement, and Canadians can make their judgment about whether that's a problem.
This committee has heard from Mr. Yeo, an employee at National Defence at the same time as his company was getting contracts from the government.
Our view is that, aside from the particular problems of his case, we don't think it makes sense to have someone who is an employee of the government also be contracted out to for certain work. The purpose of contracting out is that the skills to do that activity don't exist within government, so why would you contract out to someone who's also a government employee?
That is why we put forward a motion to this committee—which was passed, although opposed by the Liberal members—calling on the government to end these double-dipping arrangements whereby a government employee is also a recipient of government contracts. Do you believe the Department of National Defence should end all instances of double dipping?