Thank you very much.
I could ask Mr. Bains the question.
Mr. Bains, you were head of the Department of Industry. According to your testimony, you were responsible for nothing, you were above it all, on a cloud, and everyone but you was responsible for everything.
However, you had a responsible role. You were responsible for your department, which was entitled by law to carry out audits. These would have allowed you to ensure that funding agreements were respected, but also that Sustainable Development Technology Canada's, or SDTC's, ethics and conflict of interest policy was consistent with federal law.
When you were minister, how many SDTC audits did your department conduct? These audits would have enabled you, several years in advance, to identify the lapses listed today by the Auditor General.
How many audits had you commissioned?