Thank you, Madam Stoddart, for being here, and welcome.
I have two lines of questioning, first of all dealing with some specific items in budget lines; and second, I have a more general question about the cost implications of a piece of legislation that is coming before the House.
But on the specifics, in this very helpful breakdown of contracts, I guess under the category of contracts over $10,000—and you've broken it down by quarters—I notice that a lot of them are simply management consulting as the category, an awful lot of them, and a lot of those are just under $25,000. I know that's the magic cut-off for whether something has to be tendered or whether you can go sole source.
I'd like your comments on what types of things.... I think it's an awful lot of outside management consulting, and no coincidence that they're all just under $25,000, except for one, which jumps off the page, and that's Wilson, Young Events and the Intertask Group of Companies for $744,000.
I have questions about what management consulting means and why we have to go outside for all those things. And what in heaven's name would Wilson, Young have done for us for $744,000?