Public Accounts committee  Just to clarify, I did not say it was a decision to relax the governance. I said the more flexible terms of the contract with KPMG were designed to provide flexibility to the governance structure.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, there was not a relaxation of the governance. I acknowledge that the governance was not documented or put in place from the outset of the project. However, that was rectified later as the project was implemented and more—

Public Accounts committee  I was speaking to the specific task that the Auditor General referenced in terms of the KPMG contract she believed should have had more precise milestones.

Public Accounts committee  To be clear, Mr. Chair, there was no decision to relax the governance around the ArriveCAN app. It was an oversight that was later rectified in terms of the—

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I do not believe I spoke to the relaxation of the governance.

Public Accounts committee  Certainly, there was no decision that I'm aware of to relax the governance of the project.

Public Accounts committee  The majority of the updates were driven by the changes to the order in council as a result of the need to evolve and change the border measures under the Quarantine Act, which was a result of the evolution of the virus and the public health situation inside Canada and globally.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. The orders in council drove the changes to the app.

Public Accounts committee  This was a global professional services procurement vehicle established by PSPC. They established the contracts with each of the seven vendors.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  This is probably a question that I would suggest you ask our PSPC officials, who I believe are appearing tomorrow in front of this committee. The Public Health Agency of Canada was not involved in establishing the list.

Public Accounts committee  We have regular reporting requirements, and we will be reporting back on the management response to the Auditor General's report.

Public Accounts committee  My final comment is that I would welcome the findings of the Auditor General's report. While it was an unprecedented emergency response to a global pandemic that had not been faced before by the agency and there were severe operational requirements for urgent response, nonetheless, there is a requirement to document and to have in place governance.

Public Accounts committee  No, there have been no findings of wrongdoing in our investigations into Public Health Agency of Canada employees, and no employees have been suspended.

Public Accounts committee  The requirements are in place as of now. We are going to be doing further review and training to make sure that, given the number of new staff that have joined the agency through the pandemic years, we have the same level of training and comfort with the directives. Then we are going to be monitoring and verifying compliance with the implementation.