We understand that the amount awarded was a percentage amount; but, sir, there's no way that reasonable people would find these to be reasonable actions. It's unbelievable that we have hundreds of thousands of dollars being paid. We have a government appointee taking taxpayer dollars and then giving these dollars to their own company they have an interest in, because other people, who are also implicated, like the chair of the board, have said that this kind of behaviour is okay. To say that this is a company or an organization that has rigorous ethical standards that have been followed is absolutely egregious.
We saw in the report that the government commissioned that the ethics adviser advise people to backdate their ethics filings. Sir, this is not just problematic; this kind of insider dealing and corruption is very problematic for Canadians.
Sir, we'll have more questions about that. I think I'm out of time.