In terms of all the issues at the organization, they've been ongoing for years, so that could go back even to 2017 or before.
As it relates to the issues at hand and how the complaints moved forward, it was initially brought to the Office of the Auditor General in December of last year, and after they reviewed the information, they asked that the information be sent to PCO, and that's when all of the information was then packaged into the 345-slide presentation, which, again, included all of the documents and all of the references to make sure that it was comprehensive—so that it wasn't just allegations.
After that, PCO passed it off to ISED, and then ISED initiated the fact-finding in March.
In May, what was told to everyone was that the findings had been made, so every single issue that ISED had noted to suspend SDTC in October was founded all the way back to May. They had been sitting on this for over four months between that time, and this is when the minister's office initially got involved, because, once it was mentioned to them, they provided us some indication that, “These are all of the subsequent investigations.” At that point it was a fact-finding exercise, so the whole outcome of that was a six-week review, which, if anything was proven, would then initiate the required investigations for it, which would be a due process investigation. That would involve the Office of the Auditor General, reviewing all the HR issues and a review by ISED, because there were major issues that they found in the compliance agreement on the contributions side.
All of that was what they said was founded, and they said they planned to initiate the investigation. Once it got to June, after they had initiated some of those conversations with the minister's office, it was suddenly said that they needed more time to fact-check.