My position is.... This is my position as a co-founder of Democracy Watch, but I'm also doing my Ph.D. in law on this specific topic of preventing conflicts of interest, so with my legal training, my position is that the Prime Minister and finance minister already admitted they violated the Conflict of Interest Act when they said they were at the final cabinet meeting that approved the contract.
I also believe that they violated the act in a separate way by participating in the process before that cabinet meeting or by having their staff do so. It has been confirmed that both staff of the Prime Minister and staff of the finance minister participated in the entire process. We don't know all the details yet. The disclosure of documents that has happened over the weekend will provide some of the clues, but we need to see the entire communication record to really know and try to get close to the truth. We won't see recordings of phone calls, likely, but we should at least know who called whom and when for everyone involved in the process, all the emails, all the texts. I believe there are those two violations.
Then if any staff or the Prime Minister or the finance minister themselves, or any minister, tried to influence that process, not just participate in it but in any way push it in the direction of WE Charity receiving the funding, then that would be a third violation, a violation of section 9, which makes it illegal to try to influence a decision-making process when you're furthering someone's private interests—your own, your family's, your friend's or your associate's—or improperly furthering a charity's interests in this case because of your connections to it.