Of course, based upon the study done by the Ethics Commissioner, I accepted his recommendations, and I certainly would have recused instead of abstained from those projects. I did abstain in most of them; I just did not recuse myself. The procedure was set up in such a way that management recommended this, so I followed that. That was a mistake that I learned, and I would absolutely make sure I followed that precisely.
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