The House is on summer break, scheduled to return Sept. 15

Evidence of meeting #147 for Public Accounts in the 44th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was sdtc.

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On the agenda

Members speaking

Before the committee

Andrée-Lise Méthot  Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

How about Fractal Systems?

11:45 a.m.

Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

How about GHGSat?

11:45 a.m.

Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

How about GreenMantra?

11:45 a.m.

Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

How about Heliene Inc.?

11:45 a.m.

Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

How about Par-Two?

11:45 a.m.

Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

How about Meta Materials?

11:45 a.m.

Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

You're not an investor in Meta Materials?

11:45 a.m.

Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

You never have been?

11:45 a.m.

Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

Andrée-Lise Méthot

We never have been.

11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

How about Peak Power?

11:45 a.m.

Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

Why are all these listed as conflicts of interest by the Auditor General?

11:50 a.m.

Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

Andrée-Lise Méthot

Thank you very much for your question.

Here's what I did during all those years: I declared real conflicts and potential conflicts. Every time the board met, we received a list. We got 1,200 files, and if someone on our team reviewed the file, I declared a potential conflict of interest. Typically, the analysis takes about eight to 15 weeks. Every case was different. At the time of the vote on the COVID‑19 measures, we had already made the decision, sometimes years before, not to invest in those companies. I was therefore not in a conflict of interest, and we were not investors.

The Auditor General was very clear in her report. She said, “During those 2 votes, in 63 cases, directors voted while having previously declared [potential] conflicts of interest. For about a third of these situations, directors informed us that they no longer had a conflict of interest at the time of the votes.” That applies to me. We are not investors in 22 of the 23 companies listed.

11:50 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

Thank you.

Are you an investor in Terramera?

11:50 a.m.

Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

11:50 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

How about Advanced Intelligent Systems?

11:50 a.m.

Founder and managing partner, Cycle Capital Management, As an Individual

11:50 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

How about Semios?