Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Kukucha, I want to go back to how I ended my last session, because something you said astounded me.
Just for folks watching, anyone who's following, this is a complicated issue, the green slush fund. Parliament appropriates money to be spent and transferred to the foundation, as it's called in the green technology space. Over the years, it's been about $22 billion, but the last batch was about $750 million. The fence posts, the guideposts, for the foundation's board in spending that are called contribution agreements with the industry department, and they say you can spend Parliament's money on this and only this. The Auditor General found that, in many instances, the board had gone outside of that, particularly in the COVID payments but also in other instances, for a total of about $58 million that was spent in the five years she looked at. They were outside of the contribution agreements. In other words, they were against the rules that Parliament approved the money for.
You mentioned, Mr. Kukucha, that in the orientation package, when you became a director, they did not give you the contribution agreements to review so that you could understand those guideposts. Is that correct?