You mentioned in your testimony that on March 23, 2018, Canada Soccer authorized the signature of these agreements that you signed on January 1, 2019.
What you're missing, Mr. Reed, is that Canada Soccer has changed its story. When they showed up here, that's what they claimed. I showed them that there were minutes in December 2018 showing that the board itself had clearly determined that it did not approve the deal because the deal was still being negotiated.
Then they showed up mysteriously with minutes of 7 February, 2019, where the board did approve the deal. You have a director named Ryan Fequet, who was on the board at the time, and he's quoted as saying:
The board recognized this was a s--t deal right from the start....
You should know about an organization you are partnering with if you are giving them literally all of your marketing rights. And every time we have asked for information about Canada Soccer Business, the board has been shut down. The board absolutely did not approve this contract.
Mr. Fequet was a member of the board on both of these dates.
How could he say this when you're claiming the whole board agreed?