Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, may I please answer that? I reviewed the response, and it did not deal with the substance or any of the items listed in the report. It dealt strictly with his privacy rights, his own personal rights, and the grievance-type procedure. We can table it, but we'd have

Public Accounts committee  It did not deal with the substance of the report. There was nothing in the letter that would have helped KPMG in coming to any conclusion on that basis.

Public Accounts committee  Like you, I saw his name mentioned quite a few times in the report. Really, you don't have to be a procurement expert to do the right thing. The issue here is allowing all Canadians equal access to these contracts and to this business. That's the issue, the principle that's been

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, my knowledge of these transactions primarily comes from the detailed reports that KPMG did. In those reports there are references to e-mails being sent for people for preferred sources. Really, our concern is a lot more on the Public Works side. For us, CAC, which w

Public Accounts committee  I moved in July or August of 2005.

Public Accounts committee  Let me start by saying I'm not here to dodge bullets, sir. The part that I would like to talk about is what we did to fix the problem, and we haven't got to that yet.

Public Accounts committee  Not at all, sir. The issue here is that internal controls that are established are designed for normal processes. When there is collusion, especially when there is collusion between employees of two separate departments, individual internal controls in the individual departments

Public Accounts committee  I, Shahid Minto, do swear that the evidence I shall give on this examination shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.