In usual cases, we would fast-track applications that we could clearly see met all the requirements for SDTC.
I appreciate that you pointed this out, because we've had a lot of board members and executives speak to these issues as simple mistakes. Everything was just “We forgot to recuse ourselves”, and that was it. However, examples like that prove the intent, because one of the clearest ways to actually show what was happening is the potential of how they were brought into the organization and the preferential treatment that was given to these projects.
For the Verschuren Centre's application, there is no logical way anyone in the public could believe this wasn't preferential treatment, because for the ecosystem stream of funding, that wasn't publicly known to anyone. The public, who should have the ability to apply to something like the ecosystem fund, couldn't apply to it, yet she was getting fast-tracked.