Public Accounts committee  I have not met Kristian once.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Again, I spent a large portion of my time with the defence department, whether it was my 168 days as a public servant or my consulting time at the department. To answer your question, the obvious answer is yes, but on the aspect of their working with us, I'd have to get more detail for you.

Public Accounts committee  That is a really good question. From a professional services standpoint, I would actually have to get back to you on that. From a hardware and software perspective, we have four or five we use.

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely, for sure.

Public Accounts committee  Again, the short answer would be yes, because we are ISO certified in our processes. A large part of this happens to be with our...as a prime contractor with the federal government, whether it's an aboriginal set-aside contract or not, because we've had both in the past. I would say in retrospect to that, if they have some misgivings on their security clearances, that would be tracked through, and we should have an awareness of that at our own security shop.

Public Accounts committee  No. You'd have to give me more details on the actual security requirements that were not followed, because I'm not aware of any.

Public Accounts committee  Not that I'm aware of, no. I certainly haven't.

Public Accounts committee  I know I have not. This is not something that is even remotely looked at from an internal perspective, but as far as I'm aware, no.

Public Accounts committee  The audits are done by ISC, which is Indigenous Services Canada. The last one was done in February 2024, just a few weeks ago.

Public Accounts committee  I started the company in 2001-02. We won our first contract within the first year, so shortly after that.

Public Accounts committee  No.

Public Accounts committee  No.

Public Accounts committee  I would assume yes to that question. Obviously, there was a subcontract that was put together for the CBSA for this effort. I would imagine there would have been dialogue that would have had to have happened, yes.

Public Accounts committee  No.