Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, with respect to the allegations that were levied against me in the September 27 email, I've provided the actual email and the responses. From that perspective, I believe they've misled. They've misled people in that direction. Anything else outside of that that does n

Government Operations committee  That's my testimony as well. I am not aware of anybody who is receiving those sorts of kickbacks.

Government Operations committee  At the very beginning of it, I had limited to no real exposure to the president on this project, to be quite honest with you, so I don't have an answer for you.

Government Operations committee  I would agree with that comment in a normal circumstance, but not in a pandemic, I think. Number two, we were on that trajectory of developing our employees to become autonomous in this capability and these skill sets, but it takes time. Unfortunately, the pandemic hit as we wer

Government Operations committee  There were over 19 technology vendors we partnered with our CBSA internal employees, and 19 other vendors. Examples were Amazon, Blue Ink, TEKSystems, BDO..., and I'm just going off memory, Madam.

Government Operations committee  I don't know, as we're not at the Canada Border Services Agency right now.

Government Operations committee  With respect to the private relationships and partnerships companies enter into among themselves, that is outside of our purview and scope. In fact, if I look back at the article of October 6, someone named Anita Chan from PSPC gave the exact same response to Ms. Dutt. We just s

Government Operations committee  I can answer that, Mr. Chair. Two of the milestones were completed and paid for. The client was CBSA's human resources branch. They issued a note to us—and it's in the package—requesting that we cancel the TA, citing reasons of capacity and lack of employee resources that they

Government Operations committee  The business requirements were never defined when the pandemic hit. We never had the whole picture. That was the challenge. We started with a basic digital form—fairly simple, fairly straightforward—but then the complexity came with pre-border, at-border, post-border, notificatio

Government Operations committee  I've heard quoted that it was one of the most complicated integrated projects in our time.

Government Operations committee  What we built through all those months and years could not, no, not for $200,000—it would have been impossible.

Government Operations committee  It wouldn't have worked.

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  I have not.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I'll be real quick. I take allegations very seriously. If they are presented to me, I will action them. That means that on September 27 there were no allegations. I just want to read the reply from Ms. Dutt. She wrote: Good afternoon Diane, Thank you so much for