Sure. I believe that, in fact, some of the work that SCL was doing for NATO was actually funded by the Canadian government. Something that the committee might be interested in looking at with the Department of Defence in Ottawa is the relationship there.
In terms of the structure of SCL, it has had several iterations over time. When I was there, it was considered a group company where you had the same shareholders and board members on several different companies, which shared the same name, SCL, and then each of the companies within the group company specialized in a different area of work. The largest at the time I joined was SCL defence, so the majority of the work that SCL Group did was defence related. You also had SCL Elections, which was a much smaller consultancy that did elections work, usually in developing countries. SCL Social did work that usually didn't fit into either defence or politics. For example, if you had a health care project, that might be SCL Social. As well, SCL Commercial did commercial projects.
When Cambridge Analytica was set up, the formal relationship that it had when the intellectual property was transferred was from SCL Elections to Cambridge Analytica, so Cambridge Analytica was set up in the United States. It acquired not SCL Elections itself, but merely the intellectual property of SCL Elections, so SCL Elections assigned its IP to Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica, in return, provided a licence to that same intellectual property back to SCL Elections with a second contract that guaranteed that all work from Cambridge Analytica would be performed by SCL Elections. That was the basic set-up.
I can go into more detail if you'd like, but that's—