Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Kennedy, last week the former Liberal minister of industry, Navdeep Bains, was in the industry committee testifying on this issue.
He began by saying that his only responsibility for the green slush fund was actually appointing the directors. When I questioned him on his five appointments—Annette Verschuren as chair, Guy Ouimet, Andrée-Lise Méthot, Stephen Kukucha, who was the former Liberal organizer in British Columbia, and the fifth one, a government person who chaired their governance committee—I asked him if he was aware that all of those folks were basically funnelling—shovelling—money to their own companies. He declared amnesia at even appointing them and didn't remember anything. It was very useless testimony.
Then, when I asked some of the staff, including a former PMO staffer who worked at SDTC at that time, she also declared amnesia. I guess that's the Canadian version of taking the fifth. What I need to know is, why did Minister Champagne not fire any of these directors?