[3] On 8 November 2023, SDTC board chair Annette Verschuren told the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics that she had approved grants worth more than $200,000 to her energy storage firm NRStor Inc., with the money having originally been part of the SDTC's efforts to fund SDTC-linked companies with existing funding arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
[4] On 10 November, Leah Lawrence resigned as CEO of SDTC in connection with the payment, which was revealed via a whistleblower complaint in early 2023.
[7] The SDTC had allegedly determined the companies had no need for these payments as they already had a sufficient amount of money to spend on their activities without suffering from the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
[8] Former senior civil servant Paul Boothe will lead a three-person board to help the SDTC transition into an agency directly under the control of the government.
Leah Lawrence was the president and CEO of Sustainable Development Technology Canada until her resignation in 2023 in relation to the aforementioned scandal.