Evidence of meeting #32 for Finance in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was pandemic.
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Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
How would you know that he shaped the latest program? Why are you saying that?
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As an Individual
I wouldn't have. I make the language as custom-feeling as possible, putting together the pieces—
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Conservative
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Conservative
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Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
Okay.
Well, I understand there were 100 messages. I'm wondering, of those messages, how many did you [Technical difficulty—Editor] thank for helping you shape the latest program?
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Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
So would that have been only for Mr. Chin, that message? It's just odd. How do you know to thank someone for shaping a program when you don't know who they are and you have really no idea what role they would have played? Why would you thank them?
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As an Individual
Because I put together the puzzle pieces of what they're most likely involved in. They don't necessarily have to be directly the contact or have met Craig. I would just put the puzzle pieces together to the best of my ability.
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Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
Okay. So what you're saying is that it was clear he was involved in shaping a program and you wanted to thank him for that on behalf of Craig.
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As an Individual
That's a leading question. You're putting words in my mouth to build a narrative, so I'm going to backtrack a little bit there. I—
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Conservative
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As an Individual
I put the puzzle pieces together as best I could to create custom communication efforts at a mass level while working part time. Yes.
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Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
What puzzle pieces would you be putting together to craft a message like that? What puzzle pieces would you have used in order to say that he shaped a program?
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As an Individual
I would probably google them. Then I would look into our internal databases and look up the most recent project that we're probably working on with the most relevant group that they're part of.
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Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
So that's normal, then, that you would work with someone like Ben Chin to shape a program.
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As an Individual
Again, that's sort of taking my statement and then really pulling it into your narrative, but I will say that—
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Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
Well, it's just the puzzle pieces that you're putting together. You're saying that would have been the puzzle piece that you would have—
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Liberal
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Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
Well, I'm just.... What puzzle pieces would you put together? Did you just assume that Ben Chin helped shape a program?
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As an Individual
So the puzzle pieces would be.... Where does he work? What projects are people across the organization working on right now? Those are two puzzle pieces.
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Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
So Ben would have been helping to shape a program together with you. You would have had direct [Technical difficulty—Editor] back-and-forth, then.
