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Public Accounts committee There were a number of resources. I don't have the exact figure, but I can get that to you, no problem. There were a number of individuals of various levels of seniority and experience.
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee We identified the individuals to CBSA, and those individuals were on the engagement. I do not know if GC Strategies was aware of those individuals. I believe it was. My understanding is that GC Strategies knew the names of those individuals. Those individuals worked on the execution of the engagement.
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee I cannot speak to the information that GC Strategies shared with the government. We provided the names, the experience levels and the security clearance levels of the individuals who were going to be on the project. They were on the project, and they executed on the completion of the work.
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee Thank you for your question. I'm extremely proud of the work KPMG performed on the cybersecurity request. I think we provided tremendous value to the citizens of this country. Any situation in which we as KPMG can help the government and citizens further safeguard and secure their information and provide them with recommendations that would help them do so is, in my opinion, providing tremendous value.
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee What I can say is that I think you raise a number of points. For one, on the value, again, my answer remains the same. I think we provided tremendous value, and we highlighted several areas of improvement that I think speak to—
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Chair. As I was saying, I think we provided tremendous value in helping safeguard the information of our citizens in this country. Number two, on the point about security clearance, all of the folks from KPMG who worked on this particular engagement were security-cleared.
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee No, I think you've covered it. Thank you.
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee I have not, and I believe that Ms. Lee has not either.
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee Thank you for your question. KPMG is not aware of anything related to GC Strategies outside of the work that we performed—
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee The amount that we charged GC Strategies for the cyber-work was $400,000—
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee Could you ask the question again?
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee I cannot answer that today.
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee We can certainly go back and see if we have that information—
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee There was only the July meeting, and then we were asked to provide a proposal to GC Strategies in September.
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar
Public Accounts committee The July cybersecurity discovery meeting was between Imraan Bashir and GC Strategies.
April 4th, 2024Committee meeting
Hartaj Nijjar