I think that at the beginning of this program, Export Development Canada made the government aware that they didn't have the capacity, the expertise or the tools to run this program. They asked for some oversight. They informed the Department of Finance and Global Affairs that they were going to be turning to a third party to rely on to deliver this.
What I would have expected would be better monitoring once that sort of expectation was made available by Export Development Canada. Once they said, “we want some oversight”, more should have been put in place. When it comes to the contract, all parties involved realized after a while that they should turn to competitive contracts, instead of non-competitive ones—