“On March 23, 2004, the Canadian government announced a new policy on the mandatory publication of contracts over $10,000.”

hmmm I understand … it is called disclosure.

When Granny was young, the way math worked was this:
five contacts, each valued at $9,000, amounted to a total of $45,000, a tidy little sum, indeed. Ten 9,000 contracts amounted to $90,000. What would you do if you were doing a considerable amount of feeding from that seemingly bottomless trough?
Would you feel tempted to keep your contract value below the radar?