Madam Chairman, the minister has already stated that he thinks Groupaction should be allowed to continue doing business with other departments in the government despite the fact that it is under a criminal investigation and despite the fact that it produced a substandard report, in fact a report that effectively was a photocopy that the government paid half a million dollars for.
The point I want to make is that Groupaction has 10 or 12 employees and these employees produced a report that was effectively a photocopy. They will now be entering into contracts in other areas of the government producing advertising or other kinds of reports, who knows exactly what they will be doing, and the minister seems to be saying that just because they were guilty of very shoddy workmanship this one time does not really mean that we will disqualify them from other contracts with the government despite the fact, again, that they are under criminal investigation and they effectively cheated the government out of half a million dollars.
What standards do people have to meet in order to get a contract with the government? Are any standards okay? Do they have to produce any kind of value for money if they want to win a contract with the federal government?