In an instance like this one where there is even a political staffer being quoted in the newspaper as saying the process for doling out cash in Shawinigan was outside the standard practices of the Department of Human Resources Development, one has to wonder if an appropriate watchdog body's time is not due.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
The instance described was a standard practice

OPTIONS:
a). Yes.
b). It's impossible to say.
c). No.
c).