As I said to Mr. Villemure, the intention of the meeting was.... We knew that the government had diversity and pluralism as a priority back in 2015. A fellow from, I believe, the University of Waterloo and one of our mentors, who was a former diplomat, were doing a research study on the economic benefits of diversity, which varied very much from industry to industry—the ethnic composition varied from industry to industry—and we thought it would be an interesting piece of research that could help the government as it developed its policies.
I spoke with a deputy secretary in the PCO and said, “Hey, we're doing this work. Do you think this would be of interest to people?” He said yes, because it touched the work of Industry Canada, Immigration Canada, Canadian Heritage and I forget who else. It was kind of a horizontal issue. People knew me and thought, I guess, that I had credibility, so they were willing to come to a meeting with me.