Evidence of meeting #14 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was mulroney.
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Bloc
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As an Individual
It's consistent with what I'm telling you today. It's highly novelized. Ms. Cameron is very big on “novelizing”.
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Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
I don't call that novelizing. When you regularly talk about envelopes full of cash, that's not a novel.
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Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
From what you say, you went to pick up an envelope only once. That's what you told her.
5:25 p.m.
As an Individual
That happened once to me. I don't know whether there were other individuals—
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As an Individual
Yes, like I told her that I had a petty cash, that I had the $1,500 and that I had also gone to pick up an envelope at Fred Doucet's office, at one point, that looked a lot like the first envelope that I had—
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Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
You must have been very surprised when you read what she wrote about what you had told her.
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Bloc
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Mr. Martin, when the committee proposed its witness list in December, the process we went through was to communicate with each of the recommended witnesses.
Do you recall telephone conversations with an assistant clerk? Her name is Julia. Do you remember speaking to Julia?
5:25 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Julia is an assistant clerk and her job is basically to find out your availability and times when you wouldn't be available--I know you do some travelling, etc.-- and she makes notes. She makes very detailed notes, as a matter of fact.
On review of those notes, I see that the first time she contacted you, you told her that you did not want to come, that you would not come, in fact. Is that right?
5:25 p.m.
As an Individual
Yes, because I was very busy; it was the end of the year.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Also in her notes was a quotation from you that you were very disgusted with what was going on at 24 Sussex and you didn't want to even talk about it. That's correct, isn't it?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
You were disgusted with what was going on at 24 Sussex. You told her that.