Madam Speaker, I agree that we need to get to the bottom of what was an egregious violation of basic conflict of interest guidelines. This has been cleaned up now in transferring SDTC operations to the National Research Council.
In a previous speech, I was able to go over the details, so I will try to do this very quickly. I want to talk about what we call “green funds”. Being the leader of the Green Party, spelled with a capital G, I worry about the small-g use of the term. Quite a lot of this money was for technology that benefited some of the Sustainable Development Technology Canada projects done in conjunction with Natural Resources Canada. It included funds going to an unproven technology called carbon capture, utilization and storage, which went to Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Cenovus Energy and Suncor. Some of the large oil sands companies are part of this emerging funding of so-called green technology.
Does that make any difference to my colleague's analysis?