Thank you. I like that kind of answer.
Ms. Reza, I want to follow up on some interesting questions that were asked earlier.
During the pandemic, you provided justifications on several occasions, and you signed contracts with GC Strategies. According to emails between PSPC and CBSA, one of your employees, Angela Durigan, raised concerns about the justifications, which seemed insufficient to award a multi-million-dollar non-competitive contract to GC Strategies.
This employee received a response from CBSA. That answer was dubious, but she thought she had all the answers she needed. It's as if she just needed to get the justifications and check a box, and the substance of the justifications didn't really matter. All it took to approve the PSPC contract was that justification. That's how the contract made its way through the department.
I know you weren't looking at the details at your level, but at some point in the chain of approval, PSPC did not do its duty and failed to ensure that contracts were awarded appropriately.
If an emergency were to arise again, what would be done differently? Obviously, I hope that never happens.