Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
We wouldn't be here if it weren't for the SDTC employees who were whistle-blowers—who did this work. They had to live with their families as they went through having their reputations dragged through the mud, being publicly maligned and humiliated by SDTC spokespeople, not being backed up by the minister with regard to the allegations, having to live through the Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton report that tried to dismiss them, then the release of the Osler report, which proved them to be correct. They had to live through not having a union. They had to live through losing salaries, pensions and benefits. They had to live through putting non-disclosure agreements together. They had to live through the corrupt board of directors that intimidated them individually.
We have two sets of witnesses here today. In my opinion, the first set wants to cover their asses, and the second set wants the public spigot to be turned on. Nobody has raised the issue of workers, in going forward on this. I am absolutely, utterly disgusted. This Auditor General's report would not even have been done but for those workers. I have emails from those workers, some of whom had to leave their positions during a pandemic, with no job, because of the culture of intimidation and fear that was set there. We're supposed to somehow set things up because we can magically find proper board members right now who don't get the benefit of being assigned to a type of accountability that hasn't been done. At the same time, nobody really cares about them. All the resources and time.... Tomorrow it will be in the House of Commons, as well, but nobody can talk about them and their families. Nobody can talk about how we go forward to protect them more.
That's one thing I've been asking for repeatedly. If any of the witnesses here have followed the testimony, they would know I have brought this up multiple times.