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SDTC's chair moved the motions that paid her company. Ottawa was there.
The government had a man at the table, and it knew nobody recused from the COVID payments.
Annette Verschuren, Chair, June 2019 to November 2023, while also chair, CEO and majority shareholder of NRStor, the company she founded · Andrée-Lise Méthot, Director 2016 to 2021; founder and managing partner of Cycle Capital · Leah Lawrence, President and CEO, to November 2023 · Andrew Noseworthy, Assistant deputy minister at Industry, who attended board meetings from 2017 to early 2023 · Navdeep Bains, Innovation minister to 11 January 2021; the chair was appointed on his ministry's recommendation · François-Philippe Champagne, Industry minister, 12 January 2021 to 13 March 2025 · Steven Guilbeault, Cycle Capital adviser before politics; held a passive interest, Méthot testified · Dominic LeBlanc, Recused from cabinet's appointment of his friend Stephen Kukucha to SDTC's board · Stephen Kukucha, Director from 5 February 2021 to May 2024 · Gary Lunn, Governor in Council director (Harper-era appointee), 13 December 2012 to 5 February 2021
In March 2020 the board of Sustainable Development Technology Canada, a federal green-tech fund, voted COVID relief to 118 companies in its portfolio. Its chair, Annette Verschuren, moved the motion. One of the companies was NRStor, the company she founded; as chair she "remained Chair, CEO, and majority shareholder" of it. It got $217,661 over the 2020 and 2021 votes, and the Ethics Commissioner found she broke the Conflict of Interest Act.
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