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Information & Ethics committee At the time, the board decision.... They did seek legal advice. Because there were 140, or more, of these projects, it was considered an operational issue. Everybody was treated the same. Everyone had the same amount of money. We received that legal opinion that demonstrated this; therefore, it wasn't necessary to declare all the conflict.
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
Information & Ethics committee Those conflicts were already declared.
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
Information & Ethics committee I took the advice from our lawyer.
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
Information & Ethics committee The 345-page submission started with the Auditor General. That is something we don't have access to, but we have had two separate independent studies showing that there was no wrongdoing and no misconduct, but that there were areas that we need to improve, which we're doing now.
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
Information & Ethics committee We took the approach of listening to what our legal adviser told us. There were 140 companies involved in this—
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
Information & Ethics committee I think I took the proper.... I received legal advice, and I think that was the proper approach.
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
Information & Ethics committee The project was prerevenue, yes, by many years.
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
Information & Ethics committee It was built over four or five years. It was a very complicated compressed air energy storage project—
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
Information & Ethics committee There were about four or five.
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
Information & Ethics committee On the project.
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
Information & Ethics committee The money goes to the equipment and the labour associated—
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
Information & Ethics committee I'm not sure that is something I want to say. It was $120,000 in the last couple of years.
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren
November 8th, 2023Committee meeting
Annette Verschuren