I understand, Mr. Morneau. You're going back to the original point, but I wanted to confirm that the bank actually....
What you said earlier was that the advisory council provided the government with advice on how to activate the platform—the platform being the Canada Infrastructure Bank. That's what you said.
I'd like to move on to another theme. On May 16, 2016, you were at a meeting at Meech Lake with the new advisory council. This is a meeting I assume Mr. Sabia and the other advisory council members would have been at. I'm looking at an article here from 2017 that focuses on the concept of conflict of interest. What it outlines is that the members of the advisory council were asked, I assume prior to that first meeting at Meech Lake, to sign a document in which they pledged to act only in the public interest. The document stated:
While recognizing the likelihood that a member of the [council], a company or institution that the member is associated with may benefit from the decisions made by the government based on advice from the [council] and that members may be associated with companies that do business with the government, members are reminded that they should avoid any real, apparent or perceived conflict of interest
Mr. Morneau, could you give me an example of what an apparent or perceived conflict of interest could be in this context? What was envisioned by that document? What kind of situation was envisioned?