I'm not understanding whether you had a policy or not. It seemed to be the issue that you didn't have a policy on conflict, so it was okay to have conflicts. The SDTC act itself in subsection 16(2) states that no member shall profit or gain any income from the foundation or its activities.
Clearly the associate deputy, the deputy and Minister Bains, in making that appointment, must have been aware of that. If they weren't aware of that, then they must have been aware of section 4 of the public office holder act which says that in the exercise of their duty no public office holder shall further their private interests or those of their family and friends. They must have been aware of that, regardless of whether or not you had a corporate governance policy on it. They were breaking those acts by doing this.