I'm answering a question acting as if I'm a lawyer, which I am, but this is me as a member. I'm not speaking for anybody but me. Although a technical breach would occur, as I understand it, if an NDA was not signed with the specific individual who was given access to the unredacted contract, if the company could suffer no damage as a result because nothing leaked from it, I couldn't see any breach that would warrant the company suing us, right? They may not like it, but I don't think they'd have a right of action, because they couldn't prove damages.
My concern would be that something came out afterwards, and they said to the Government of Canada, “You didn't follow the proper form. You didn't bother to get the NDA signed, and this leaked. Now we've lost this money, and we're suing you.”
That would be my feeling, but again, I'm not acting as a lawyer here. It's just my own personal feeling, Mr. Chair.