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Public Accounts committee  In terms of our internal processes, as we described before, we do very specific client and engagement acceptance processes internally in KPMG. We have not changed any of our processes at all. They were rigorous before, and they're really rigorous now, but we haven't fundamentally changed any of those processes.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  We did everything we were asked to do in terms of providing documentation to the Public Health Agency and, prior to that, PSPC, when we were responding to the CEPS RFP. As I said earlier, we were under the direct impression that the Public Health Agency was also providing the appropriate documentation, but we were not privy to any of that internally with the work we were doing.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we are.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  The answer is, absolutely not.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  To our knowledge, all of the work that KPMG has done has been under the specific procurement processes set out by the government, and we are extremely proud of the quality—

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  —of the work that we've done.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  To our knowledge, we have not been contacted by the ombudsman's office.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  As I said, of course we would co-operate with any governmental bodies that would contact KPMG. We have not been contacted by the ombudsman directly. Of course we would comply.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  Neither Mr. Nijjar nor I was directly involved in that work, but we are aware and we also understand that.... It's very typical for KPMG to be called in to do third party reviews like that.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  We definitely read it.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  If I understand your question, the work was such that every single time there was a new order in council, a policy change under the Quarantine Act, I think you can probably imagine the pressure that put not only on the Public Health Agency, but on the border services—immigration, for instance, and the Transport Canada department.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  There were numerous times when the Public Health Agency was expected to communicate with their upper management about what they thought they should do to respond operationally. For instance, there were a couple of times when they asked...actually, it was more than a couple of times.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  As I said, neither the work we did through the Public Health Agency nor the work we did directly...although the cybersecurity work was an audit of the cyber-parameters of the app. None of our engagement work had anything to do with the development of the app itself, so it's very difficult for us to comment on that.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  We of course prepared very diligently, because we take this extremely seriously and we wanted to make sure we could come prepared to answer all of your questions today. We contacted our colleagues who work in this space and, obviously, our colleagues who worked on the engagements.

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee

Public Accounts committee  Oh, I'm so sorry. Yes—

April 4th, 2024Committee meeting

Lydia Lee