Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witness. If it wasn't for your ethics, bravery and, frankly, tenacity in exposing this over the last two years, we wouldn't be sitting here today, and we wouldn't have had the previous meetings we had. On behalf of everyone and all taxpayers, I thank you for the service you've done and continue to do.
One of the areas I'd like to explore is around former chair Annette Verschuren and her desire to get money from SDTC to the Verschuren Centre at Cape Breton University. I believe an email was written to Jennifer Smith from the then VP of investments, Ziyad Rahme, who is now the acting president. He emailed her and said, “Jen, this project is approved for fast track to the VCS”, that committee, the analysis committee.
Why would something be fast-tracked, and how would that happen?