The Osler process is something that ISED themselves were told about when the initial investigation was started by ISED. A complaint was made to the board member, Stephen Kukucha, at the end of January. He stated that they had asked for information from the whistle-blowers, who were internal employees, and that they never received anything. We are willing to provide all of the emails around that situation.
What happened was they picked Osler, which is clearly a conflicted law firm that has been used consistently by SDTC to put people under NDAs. Some of the most significant complaints that were involved required that NDAs be waived, because how can you investigate a situation if the people who are pertinent to it are not even being interviewed?
There was a back-and-forth that happened between employees and Osler. Once it was decided that Osler was going to investigate, they mentioned that they were going to use the SDTC ethics policy as the guiding framework through which the investigation was going to happen. However, when the employees mentioned that the same policy requires disclosure and transparency around what the investigation is and what the outcomes are going to be, Osler immediately reneged on that. They then suddenly said that this is actually not under the ethics policy, which they themselves had said to the employees was in place.
Once that happened, it was clear that this was a cover-up. When ISED started their investigation in March all the way to now, they've consistently had that same view of it. This whole situation on SDTC using Osler is clearly made to divert attention and hide the actual truth.
I know that Osler also provided investigation outcomes. None of those investigations and issues were even investigated correctly. What he says is completely false. Again, we are willing to provide all of those documents. They are unwilling even to tell ISED about that, but ISED knew about all of those emails back and forth.