Mr. Smith, you indicated that you had been cleared by the Ethics Commissioner. In fact, that is not the case. You were not cleared for this matter here. This pie of shame we have here happened before you were a member of Parliament, and as a result it was not under the Ethics Commissioner's purview to even review it, and he said so in his report. He did not clear you for any of this.
In fact, what we've learned here today is that you were hired and given a piece of the pie in order to help your cousin break the rules; that's what happened here. Your cousin wanted to direct a contract to someone who was not eligible to receive it, so they hired middlemen and paid them out in order to get the contract from point A to point B.
You've tried to absolve yourself by saying that you turned over the company to your children and your wife when you went on to become a public servant and later a Liberal MP.
How old were your children when they took over the company?