Thank you, Mr. Chair.
At the last committee meeting, Mr. Cory of the Canada Infrastructure Bank, CIB, confirmed to us that McKinsey played an important role in the CIB's founding and that contracts had been awarded to McKinsey without a call for tenders, while there were barely one or two employees at the CIB, according to what we were told. So McKinsey's role was fundamental at that time.
Since 2020, or roughly since the arrival of Mr. Cory, a former McKinsey employee, at the head of the CIB, no contracts have been awarded to McKinsey. However, the CIB ended up operating quietly and starting to make investments. I'm going to ask you a question, and you may be able to answer it.
McKinsey sometimes provides advice to the governments of Quebec and Ontario, for example, but it has also done projects with the Canada Infrastructure Bank, including irrigation projects in Alberta.
Did McKinsey advise the Government of Alberta or the Government of Quebec on projects for which it received funding from the Canada Infrastructure Bank?