Thank you very much, Chair.
I'd like to go back to the issue of the challenge function and exactly how that would work.
Again, I'm very preoccupied by the fact that, yes, this happened, but also that the normal checks and balances did not seem to be in place. We know human nature. In any organization, you're going to have some bad apples, but we need to understand how an organization protects its operations from that happening again.
In the Auditor General's report, paragraph 1.48 says:
We found that the Canada Border Services Agency’s Information, Science and Technology Branch, which led the development of the ArriveCAN application, directly engaged with Public Services and Procurement Canada for contracting purposes. There was no evidence that the agency’s own Procurement Directorate was regularly involved in the contracting process.
Ms. O'Gorman, have you investigated, confirmed or explored exactly what happened there? Was the procurement directorate completely bypassed in this process?