I would start by saying, Chair, that we were aware of the internal audit that was being conducted in the department. The department informed us of its concerns around the management of these contribution agreements, and as is our usual practice, we were kept abreast and discussed with the department what actions it was taking to address the recommendations in the internal audit. And we were generally satisfied with the actions the department was taking, as we note in our report.
So we really, at that point, thought it was being handled. Then we received an anonymous complaint that there was an issue around a conflict of interest and laying out some of the issues around this contractor and the role he played. That's when we went back in to see whether it had been identified and addressed; first of all, whether the department recognized that there was a conflict of interest, which it hadn't, and whether any additional steps had been taken subsequent to it. That's why it resulted in this report.