Public Accounts committee  No, we did not.

Public Accounts committee  To my knowledge, that is correct.

Public Accounts committee  The way we compensate our staff is actually a pretty complicated process.

Public Accounts committee  I will say that no staff member or partner is directly compensated for a particular engagement. We use a complicated, multivariate formula to assess a staff member's performance against the firm's performance, their individual performance and their contribution to Canadian society.

Public Accounts committee  For the support that KPMG provided to the Public Health Agency, none of that work had anything to do with the app itself. As I mentioned before, all of the work we did was in analyzing and helping them to plan for the operational impacts of the different policy changes that were coming through OICs under the Quarantine Act.

Public Accounts committee  I'd like to start by saying that under no circumstances did KPMG feel there was a conflict of interest. We followed all of our internal processes to comply with our policies and procedures along those lines. To your comment about social events and the like, you have to remember that our work was initiated in September 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.

Public Accounts committee  I am not aware of any of that kind of activity happening.

Public Accounts committee  Sheriff Abdou was the DG on the original TA that was directed to us through the CEPS vendor of record. The amendments were always made at the Public Health Agency's request for extension.

Public Accounts committee  Contracts vary according to the nature of the client's circumstances and the engagement work itself. This was an unprecedented time, as I think we can all agree. The amendments were made at their request.

Public Accounts committee  As I mentioned in my opening remarks, I've been in the health care industry for over 25 years. I worked previously at a large academic hospital network, and was given an opportunity to help KPMG establish an offshoot of its existing health care consulting practice with a focus on digital health care.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  As I said previously, all of the invoices that we submitted to the Public Health Agency were approved by the agency prior to submission. We never changed our approach, from the very first invoice to the last invoice, in terms of the level of detail that was provided to the agency.

Public Accounts committee  The RCMP has not contacted KPMG.

Public Accounts committee  I can't comment on all of the other subcontractors that have worked with the government. I'll turn it over to Mr. Nijjar again to comment specifically on the cybersecurity work that we did.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. I'll take this one, since it sounds like it's a bit more general than just the CBSA-related work. As we've both said this morning, KPMG has extremely strict protocols around client and engagement acceptance. We have to go through a very in-depth process every single time we undertake to work with a new client or an existing client to look for any irregularities, any independence conflicts or other areas of risk that would be a risk either to the client and/or to us, and we follow them to the letter.