Information & Ethics committee  It's detailed in the report itself. There is a version control page. I believe there are four versions.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  No, it was not. That was my personal opinion.

Information & Ethics committee  It was an offhand remark, sir.

Information & Ethics committee  I discussed the matter with the deputy minister.

Information & Ethics committee  I had no communication with the minister through this exercise. It's the deputy minister's role to do this. If I may—

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, I don't have an opinion on the matter. I've never attended a board meeting and I've not—

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, I'm not an expert on conflict of interest, but certainly from my experience within government, I believe that the appropriate practices are to disclose. I believe that's the legal threshold, and the best practice would be to document those conflicts. I think it would b

Information & Ethics committee  I can speak to that in a limited sense, Mr. Chair. Certainly, the outcome of the fact-finding report was the development of a management response and action plan, which was sent to SDTC and which they've agreed to implement in a timely manner so as not to impact the stakeholder

Information & Ethics committee  In the conduct of the fact-finding, part of the plan that was developed in collaboration with RCGT was to identify clear and objective evidence that would be factual only. In the case of HR allegations, it's very, very difficult to do that. Generally speaking, you need to receive

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, I'm not a lawyer; I'm an accountant. I'm a CFO. It's not my area of expertise, but my layperson's understanding is that wilful misconduct would be considered founded wrongdoing, and there was nothing in RCGT's findings to suggest that there was wilful intent.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  That is correct.

Information & Ethics committee  The fact-finding report has very limited scope and very limited methodology, and it was being directed by judgmental samples from the complainants report, so it's certainly not exhaustive. It's not a detailed forensic audit, and all we received, really, were indications that so

Information & Ethics committee  The first phase of it was contracted for approximately eight weeks—about half of that being field work.