The department did provide a response to our recommendation, and it's actually a pretty good one to the recommendation.
On ISED's role when it comes to the oversight of a foundation, in this case they were required to inquire about conflicts of interest. As I mentioned in the previous answer, when you want to have individuals on the board who are knowledgeable in the industry helping to approve which projects get funding, it is likely that there will be situations of real or perceived conflicts of interest, and that's why they should be well managed.
ISED just received the minutes from the foundation and, as we noted, the minutes were not a good record. I would have expected that they would have been much more proactive in finding out about real or perceived conflicts of interest and the mitigation measures, and they just didn't do that. I will look forward to see how they're going to resolve this with this foundation and others that have a similar governance structure.