Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm trying to understand a little bit about the responsibility and the culture of the board. I'm not very familiar with some of the corporate boards and structures. I'm a New Democrat, and we don't get appointed to those positions, so we have to live with the folklore that we hear.
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the ability for people to be excused from knowing what should be there. In your opinion, would it be a basic thing for all the board members to understand in terms of the rules and obligations about absenteeism, or were they all abusing this? Did some do it, or was it a mixture, a dog's breakfast, so to speak, of behaviour?
I find that hard to accept, because a lot of times these are political appointees, and you would think that there would be some type of understanding and appreciation of public responsibility at the end of the day.
Can you walk me through what happened in the boardroom? What do you think happened there, and do you think those individuals abstained from their job of conscientiously overseeing taxpayers' dollars?