Evidence of meeting #38 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was varin.
A recording is available from Parliament.
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
You don't know that. Okay, thank you.
I asked you earlier and you agreed to provide e-mails that you had with the Department of Public Works concerning the West Block renovation. Could you also provide to the committee e-mails you had with consultants in relation to that project, please?
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Thank you very much.
Mr. Prud'Homme, I understand, is or was the president of the Bourassa riding for the Conservative Party. Basically, after you got a $10 million contract...he was the person who was responsible to do fundraising in that riding, and he approached you and asked you to do a fundraiser, essentially, in return for getting the $10 million contract with Public Works. Is that your understanding of what happened?
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Okay. Let's just go through this. After you got the $10 million contract to do work on the West Block, you were approached by Mr. Prud'Homme, president of the riding association, who was obviously responsible to do fundraising there. He asked you to do fundraising for that riding, to arrange a fundraiser, and this was in return for the $10 million contract with Public Works.
10:30 a.m.
President, LM Sauvé
It was to help Minister Paradis and the riding of Bourassa increase their funding capacity.
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Did you indicate that Mr. Paradis was there and knew the people who were there were contractors working on government projects?
10:30 a.m.
President, LM Sauvé
Well, the room was packed with contractors, architects, civil engineers. It was pretty obvious what you were walking into.
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
So when you were thinking about who to invite to this meeting, how did that work?
10:30 a.m.
President, LM Sauvé
I basically scrolled through my Rolodex of who would have a vested interest in going there and who would be the most susceptible to want to contribute.
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Denis Coderre Liberal Bourassa, QC
Mr. Sauvé, I have in front of me the list of contributors to the Conservative Riding Association in Bourassa for 2009. Of course, all of this is connected to the event. I will list the names and I would like you to tell me if they are associates of yours.
Patrick Bellemare?
