Public Accounts committee  Yes. He has contracts with National Defence and with other departments as well.

Public Accounts committee  To answer your question simply, yes, I do find that odd, and I find it concerning. I will say that one thing he was aware of was a plan to consolidate some of the contracts we had on that project team, so there was a risk that his contracted work would end. That may have factored

Public Accounts committee  Allowed to happen in terms of his choice, but you're quite right; there were no public servants reporting to him in that job. He was at the bottom of the org chart. He probably was supervising a few contractors, but it was a low-level position.

Public Accounts committee  If he was leading a team, he may have been leading some contractors, but he was not leading any public servants or military members.

Public Accounts committee  We don't believe so, but we are confirming that. Troy will jump in here in a second, but the reason I say that is that I am almost 100% sure it wouldn't be Dalian. I mentioned that he has business dealings with other companies. I think we know who they are, but I can't say with 1

Public Accounts committee  There are two parts to that, Mr. Chair. First, perhaps we can offer a list of the other companies that we know Mr. Yeo dealt with in terms of subcontracting joint ventures. Troy, perhaps there is something else we can provide on those other contractors.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. That is the reason why we will verify hiring processes to validate the information received. We will specifically make sure that the reference checks provided are done correctly. I don't think you want to be in a world where we're effectively spying

Public Accounts committee  I did not say that. I know.

Public Accounts committee  In fact, it was after La Presse published an article on Mr. Yeo and the bank accounts he had in other countries that someone recognized his name. The first assumption was that it was probably a duplicate name. Within five minutes we checked, and we realized that this was in fact

Public Accounts committee  On February 28.

Public Accounts committee  That is the truth, no one noticed. I would like to refer members to the organizational structure. He is very far down in the organizational structure. It's a big place. Obviously the people who managed him on a day-to-day basis were not watching the parliamentary committee. Tro

Public Accounts committee  I am, Mr. Chair.

Public Accounts committee  I will have to get back on the date. I know that Calian receives significant contracts from the department for multiple purposes, including supplementary health care services for our armed forces members.

Public Accounts committee  Isabelle, I may refer to you on this one for the staffing process. There was an external competition staffing process launched, which means that it's open to individuals outside the public service. That was a generic competition that was launched. He applied and was added to a

Public Accounts committee  We're looking into the staffing process, as we mentioned, through the Public Service Commission. For the contracts that were through Dalian, we also want to make sure that we received the services that were contracted for, and to date the answer is yes, we did receive those servi