Madam McClymont, it was conflict upon conflict upon conflict, because it wasn't just Ms. Verschuren who had a conflict. One Stephen Kukucha, a Liberal insider and Trudeau organizer, received $20 million in funding from SDTC, yet he was appointed to the board. Guy Ouimet, months before his appointment, received millions of dollars in funding from SDTC.
There seems to be a pattern here, and that pattern, under this government's watch, is that in order to be appointed to the SDTC one must have a conflict of interest. How else are these people being appointed, with the disastrous result of $330 million in taxpayer dollars improperly going out the door and being funnelled into the companies of these very same insiders who had conflicts of interest right out of the gate yet got through the process?
It's hardly a success.