Conservatives Want Audits of Ottawa's GlobalEye Purchase

CBC reports that the federal Conservatives want the auditor general and the parliamentary budget officer to investigate Ottawa's planned GlobalEye purchase, questioning whether proper procurement rules were followed. The demand follows reporting that the Saab aircraft meets only some military requirements, and that competitors had not been shown those requirements before the government announced its preferred aircraft. The request seeks scrutiny of the procurement process. What the complaint targets, at least on its face, is the sequence: requirements that competing bidders did not see before a preferred aircraft was named.