Certainly. I will not comment on his military service, but I will comment on his transition from contractor into employee.
He was a full-time contractor with National Defence for an extended period of time. The team he worked for—quite wisely, I will say—recognized that this was a skill set we needed going forward and that it would be more economical to turn him into an employee rather than pay the higher rate for a contractor.
Obviously, they didn't know that he would turn out to have conflict of interest issues, but he was doing basically the same job as an employee that he was as a contractor. This was putting in place automated and secure systems to allow unclassified information to be shared with a more secure network—classified secret or above—in an automated fashion without compromising the security of the higher network.
He was quite a technical expert and the role was the same as contractor and as civilian. It was thought at the time that it was an economically wise decision to turn him into an employee. Obviously, they did not know about his other businesses and that he had failed to disclose those.