Thank you.
Gentlemen, this is a different topic.
On March 20, Minister of Public Services and Procurement Canada Duclos and President of the Treasury Board Anand addressed the government operations committee and revealed that, through a combination of tips and advanced data analytics, they had uncovered three subcontractors engaged in fraudulent billing across 36 government departments amounting to nearly $5 million.
They confirmed at committee, as they did at a national press conference, that all three subcontractors had been referred to the RCMP.
The department officials then testified approximately two months thereafter and initially refused to provide the names of those subcontractors to committee. Only after we brought to their attention that parliamentary rules trump privacy, they actually revealed the identity of three individuals—not corporations but individuals.
Are those individuals currently being investigated, or has the investigation been completed and charges laid?