Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, everyone, and welcome back.
I know this is going to shock MP Turnbull, but I'd like to begin by moving the motion I put on notice with regard to SDTC. Hopefully we can dispose of this quickly.
As members will recall, as part of our work plan we had scheduled one more meeting on SDTC with four witnesses, which we had passed through a motion here. They were Veena Bhullar, the former liaison between SDTC and ISED; ADM Andrew Noseworthy; Navdeep Bains, minister at the time of the change of the chair; and Gianluca Cairo, the former chief of staff.
We asked for those witnesses to appear after the former CEO Leah Lawrence's testimony. She spoke quite a bit to the interaction she had with those individuals about the conflicts that the chair had and the objections and concerns that the management was expressing relative to the proposed appointment.
In fact, some of these departmental officials came back and said, well, that's okay, they'll manage through the conflict. Others of these officials were actually part of that process, according to the former president, in doing this. As well, ADM Noseworthy sat in on all the board meetings, and there has been, I think, a bit of contradiction between what he said versus some of the other testimony.