Public Accounts committee  Up to this point, the department has not been contacted with the suspicion of any wrongdoing on the part of Mr. Doan or the notion that he should be suspended for something at this point. The investigation is still ongoing, but at this point, there were no incriminating findings

Public Accounts committee  I'll let Mr. Rochon correct me here. To my knowledge, the secretary of CBSA did communicate with our department. We were advised that up to that moment—it was not me personally—there was no incriminating evidence of any wrongdoing against Mr. Doan. As I said, the investigation i

Public Accounts committee  We've put measures in place as a result of these reviews. With ArriveCAN the contracting was done during the pandemic, in 2020. To respond to your question, hopefully the measures we've put in place will show some improvements over the coming while. Should there be audits in the

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely, I did, exactly two weeks ago—not last week, but the Wednesday before—shortly after the tabling of the report of the Auditor General. I had about a 40-minute discussion with the president on the findings and on the action plan that we would be working on to make sure w

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. Maybe I'll turn to the CFO as well, Karen Cahill. The policies allow contracts to be awarded non‑competitively. That said, we always prefer the competitive route. When we award a contract non‑competitively, it's important to document and justify, to

Public Accounts committee  I'll turn to the chief financial officer.

Public Accounts committee  Indeed those reports were done by the internal audit shops of the departments that have contracts with McKinsey. As you noted, there were weaknesses identified. The departments had an action plan, but we at Treasury Board also produced a report that was submitted to the OGGO comm

Public Accounts committee  The integrity regime is actually a PSPC responsibility. I'm pretty sure that you're hearing from them tomorrow, so that's a question more suited for them. On the integrity regime, to my knowledge, there's an update to the existing one that's.... No? I'll pass it over to my col

Public Accounts committee  I'll undertake to see what's in the art of the possible there and get back to the committee with the possibilities of what we can report—

Public Accounts committee  I could definitely try to do that, yes.

Public Accounts committee  We will get back to the committee with what we actually find—

Public Accounts committee  Yes. We will come back with what we find.

Public Accounts committee  It's what we find. If we find we have issues doing it—that's what we find—we will let the committee know.

Public Accounts committee  That's all I can—

Public Accounts committee  I'm trying to be honest here.