Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Kolbuc, I'm going to ask you some questions with respect to the application for funding by the Verschuren Centre.
When the decision was made to not move ahead with the funding application, the then VP of investments and current COO, Mr. Rahme, on January 18, 2022, wrote to the Verschuren Centre and stated that SDTC would give “best efforts” to help the Verschuren Centre secure funding from other government departments and agencies, notwithstanding the obvious conflict of interest that Annette Verschuren was chair of SDTC and, at the same time, was the founder of and sat on the board of directors of the Verschuren Centre. It was her personal vanity project.
Who directed, who was it and whose decision ultimately was it to direct staff to undertake efforts for the Verschuren Centre to receive government funding from other departments and agencies?