Government Operations committee  It’s a good question. The database contains information showing whether the intellectual property belongs to the firm or the government. However, this information has only been added to the database over the past few years, and it is therefore difficult to have an overall pictur

Government Operations committee  It’s an excellent question.

Government Operations committee  I can't speak specifically to the McKinsey contracts. The only thing I think I would note is that, to the credit of the open data team that publishes the proactive disclosure of contracts data, the quality of data included in the dataset really increases around 2017-18, and that

Government Operations committee  No, there's nothing specific to McKinsey in our research.

Government Operations committee  Also no.

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  Same here.

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  Thanks so much, Mr. Chair. Thanks to all of you for having me here. It's nice to be back. Professor Clarke and I were here in November as part of—

Government Operations committee  It's all good. Thanks so much. I really appreciate it. Yes, it's nice to be back. Professor Clarke and I, as you mentioned, were here in November as part of the committee's study on ArriveCAN. I think it's safe to say that, when we started this research last spring, we didn't ex

Government Operations committee  I will say, having built things on weekends.... As Prof. Clarke said, it's easier to build what it might look like, but it's hard to know what it would look like to run that, and to run the infrastructure for it, at scale.

Government Operations committee  For my part, I agree with Ms. Luelo. I would add one point, however. Management positions require a certain level of bilingualism. I would recommend giving people access to positions in the public service where they would have advancement opportunities without becoming managers.

Government Operations committee  That's certainly a great question. Thanks. Some of that is available in the proactive disclosure of contracts dataset for more recent contracts, but maybe I can pass that to Ms. Luelo for more details on that.

Government Operations committee  Thanks so much, Mr. Chair. I'm really grateful to be here. I'm a federal public servant who works on technology and public policy. I was invited to be here today in the context of research work that I did with Professor Amanda Clarke over the past year as part of the public serv