They have the meeting, and Great-West Life is told by NCPC, “Keep it quiet that you're not going to do the administration. You guys should go see Morneau Sobeco. You just got them as a pension outsourcer. They're going to do the pension administration, and I'm sure they can do your insurance administration at the same time.”
Then there is an e-mail from Great-West Life to NCPC stating: “Following the meeting in Ottawa that our members attended, it was our understanding that your investigation into an alternate service provider was to be treated as confidential and not to be shared with our resources.”
They decided to cancel the next meeting because they didn't have an outsourcer, and they had to look for one. An e-mail is sent out to let everybody know the meeting is cancelled, but they're not told why. The e-mail reads that some of the members of the project team couldn't be there, so they were going to cancel the January 7 meeting “due to the scheduling conflicts of some team members”. This is from one of the people who knows Great-West Life isn't doing the outsourcing any more, or doing the administration. One of his co-conspirators—for lack of a better term—writes back to him giving some feedback on the e-mail, just one word: “Smooth”.
Within a few days—