That wasn't my question, though.
It did go through the board. When it went to the board investment committee on January 13, 2022, the minutes rejected it, as you say, for all the reasons of conflict of interest. The minutes say that SDTC would shift its efforts in discussion with other potential funding sources in hope that the diligence conducted to date can be transformed into another funding agency. That was in January.
In June, ACOA gave the Verschuren Centre $2 million, and so on. For the next couple of months, another $4.2 million was given by other government agencies. There was another $1 million in September from ACOA, and another $3.1 million from ISED, which Mr. Noseworthy acted for. Also, another $1.4 million came from DFO in May of that year.
Do you believe it was ethical to use the staff of SDTC to be the business development funding officers for the Verschuren Centre, which you sat on the board of, and use the staff of your own agency, which you chaired, to help fund government money in other ways for the other organization you established and sat on the board of?