Government Operations committee  At the end of the day, my idea was specifically to look at—

Government Operations committee  Yes—at Botler's direction. Thank you.

Government Operations committee  Based on Botler's requirements and requests, yes.

Government Operations committee  At Botler's direction, yes, I provided a draft, if you will. I also went into GEDS and pulled down an email address, yes.

Government Operations committee  If I may say so, the industry in and of itself and primarily the Government of Canada are facing significant fines or having to fund, if you will, all kinds of harassment issues, and this was an opportunity, if you will, to proactively look at that. That was what I believe Botler's value proposition was—to proactively look at managing harassment.

Government Operations committee  My background is in business architecture. The federal government follows several frameworks. I believe you have an IT background. For those frameworks, the data would have to match, as would the infrastructure and all the associated processes. I was engaged to investigate how those processes could incorporate the proactive management of HR issues.

Government Operations committee  If I was contracted to do so, yes.

Government Operations committee  Sure. I don't know how to respond to that. I can't comment, because it's a third party comment that I can't comment on.

Government Operations committee  I have not, unless I've been contracted to do so.

Government Operations committee  No, I have not.

Government Operations committee  Botler is a small company. They contacted me over and over, several times, to look at what they could do. I was helping them, and there were a lot of marketing discussions. As soon as an email like that was sent, the strategy would change. The marketing discussions were based on hypothetical scenarios, possible white papers, opportunities that might or might not arise, and I can tell you specifically—

Government Operations committee  Again, they were a small company starting up, and I was hoping to help them formulate.... I'm not a marketing person. I'm specifically a business process engineering guy.

Government Operations committee  No, I am not aware, and I have not been contacted by them or by auditors.

Government Operations committee  Under the contract I can't identify specifics, but I can say that it was primarily for research, document compilation and report writing.

Government Operations committee  I can't comment, but to your point, it would be very ludicrous for me to do that.