Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you all for your attendance today.
Mr. McEvoy, on page 3 of the document, the auditor review, it states under 1.3, the second and third sentences:
In the case of Abotech, there is evidence of a pattern of referrals from Mr. Brazeau to Abotech whereby consultants would be directed to Abotech by Mr. Brazeau. In a number of cases, Abotech received sole source contracts from CAC and in a number of other cases Abotech is the only bidder in a competitive procurement process.
In the next paragraph, which is a stand-alone sentence,
Similar to the pattern noted above, there is also evidence of a process to facilitate contracts (through Abotech) to a resource desired by a given client.
Mr. Smith has given testimony that would have us believe that it was just fairly straightforward business. You heard the testimony.
These are pretty strong allegations with no caveats in here. What I really want is, in your own language, for you to explain what you mean by these patterns. Exactly what do you believe was going on that shouldn't have been? Could you be as clear as possible so that we can follow the bouncing ball here?