Mr. Speaker, it is not a question of the more people we have tendering. We have too many people offering too many tenders within the government. We have some sovereignty questions that are at risk here. All we want to know is who is making the decisions.
Here we have an internal defence department memo on the issue of the split contract which says that in a two way competition the risk to the crown increases dramatically and that this risk could take the form of contract omissions or errors. This is very serious.
Why was the contract split when the DND officials were warning of the consequences, and who made the decision?