Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Ailapperuma, I will continue in the same vein as my earlier questions.
During the entire saga of the contracts awarded to GC Strategies, Mr. Utano had a number of exchanges with the Department of Public Works and Government Services on the nature of the contract that was to be awarded to GC Strategies. You were copied on a number of those emails, which I have in front of me, dated March 27 to 30, 2020. In them, Ms. Durigan from the department questions the use of the national security exception for the contract.
When you learned about this through the emails, did you think at any point that there might have been a problem with the way in which a non-competitive contract worth millions of dollars was awarded for a three-year period using the national security exception? Did you ever wonder about that?