I see.
I would tend to think however that for a program involving 900,000 businesses, if you felt that you had neither the expertise nor the ability to offer such small loans to so many businesses, you would have put that in writing. I have to agree though that it is not in any way EDC's business model.
I'm referring to the principle of covering yourself, something public servants are very familiar with. I will not mention the three letters associated with that principle.
We would ask you kindly to look for that information and provide us with the related documents. We would like to see what happened, right from the beginning.
Let us turn now to the 19 contracts awarded to Accenture.
You appeared before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts this past February. At the time, I asked you about Accenture. The English-language press reported that you relied on a single company to deliver work valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, without a competitive process.
You said then that there were 31 contracts, with a total value of $208 million.
Why did you say that? Now we are talking about 19 contracts with a value of $313 million. How could you forget $105 million in the process?