Of course, I'm using criminal law terms that I shouldn't be using, but I think what you discovered was a lack of accountability and controls in the way they ran the NEF.
There's one line you added to your final report that intrigues me, and I'd like to ask about it. At the last meeting, I asked Hockey Canada about the section of your report where you found that the NEF didn't fund the player health and wellness programs that, in a memo to its members in July 2022, the organization claimed it did. In fact, in your interim report you mentioned this, and in your final report you added a line saying that, yes, in fact, the NEF did not fund those programs. They were funded from the health and benefit trust, which was another reserve fund—with its own set of governance problems—that Hockey Canada had.
The timing of these untrue statements in July immediately followed the public revelations about the NEF, the meeting of our committee, the hiring of a crisis communications firm and, in fact, the board minutes where they weaved a different narrative in terms of accusing the press of maligning Hockey Canada.
I was wondering whether you thought this false disclosure in July 2022 that the NEF had these other good purposes was deliberate. Or was it, again, just poor governance and a mistake?