Government Operations committee  No, no. I guess I could have undertaken the search myself. The thing was, from the onset, I didn't think this particular infrastructure funding program was any match for what we were doing, for a variety of reasons that I've laid out. So I spent about six minutes on the briefin

Government Operations committee  I suppose I could have. I didn't. But I did bring the NRCan renewable energy federal funding sources web page and the Canadian solar association web page. Both had links to financial assistance for renewable energy, and this program is not listed on either of those. The reason I

Government Operations committee  Absolutely none.

Government Operations committee  It was the staff, not the commissioner.

Government Operations committee  Yes, the office.

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  I think I was aware he was in business with Rahim. But that was the extent of it.

Government Operations committee  I just want to make the point.... I don't want to give you the impression I was not aware that Patrick was going to try to find out whether projects were eligible.

Government Operations committee  Yes. He'd had that conversation. That was fine. The thing I wasn't aware of is that his actions were going to end up in what was being called a formal application for funding. That's what shocked me.

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  Yes. And if it came back that this particular infrastructure program--

Government Operations committee  --covered components, I'm not sure that even then--given the fact that our business at that time was pretty much 100% under the FIT program, under the Ontario subsidized feed-in tariff program--there would have been anything there. So it wasn't an issue that I gave a lot of thoug

Government Operations committee  Well, under RESOP, which was the only program we had as an anchor because they hadn't announced FIT--but the rules were the same under FIT--10 megawatts was the maximum individual contract you could build, and that's about a 70-acre footprint.

Government Operations committee  Right.

Government Operations committee  Absolutely not--no idea that was taking place.