As I said in my opening remarks, you have to understand that there are a lot of policies relating to the responsibility of an employee or in this case of a supplier.
The onus is on them to declare their responsibility. Public servants have, as a condition of employment, a requirement to declare conflicts of interest.
On that side, I believe this committee has asked colleagues from the Department of National Defence to come and speak to the actions they're taking. It's very important, as a general response, to understand that we have a framework to prevent, detect and respond to conflicts of interest.
Many different measures and triggers have been put in place by this. When we know about them, we act on them. The onus is on both the public servant and the contractor to disclose any potential conflict.
This is a very unusual situation. I believe we've been asked to come back and provide more detail on other similar cases that we know about.
In closing, let me say simply that, last year, Public Services and Procurement Canada fired five employees who did not comply with the policies requiring them to declare a conflict of interest. As in every case when an employee is fired for wrongdoing in the public service, we published the information on the Government of Canada's Open Government portal.