The man who blew the whistle on a culture of conflict of interest at the federal green fund says he feels vindicated after an auditor general report confirmed his information, yet he criticized the lack of accountability in the affair so far.
The whistleblower, whose name was withheld, testified before the House of Commons public accounts committee on Sept. 18 as it studies the report of the auditor general into Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC).
The auditor general sampled a portion of projects supported by SDTC, a federal arms-length foundation supporting green technologies companies, and found numerous instances of board members allocating themselves money….