Thank you, Madam Chair.
Allow me to read what Mr. Blair said on June 1 in the PROC meeting, because it differs wildly from the characterization the Conservatives are trying to attribute to Mr. Blair.
He said:
Allow me to clarify that the information was not shared with me. It was authorized by CSIS to be shown to me, but they determined.... I would leave that question as one that perhaps you might want to put [out] to the director. The director determined that [it] was not information the minister needed to know, so I was never notified of the existence of [the] intelligence, nor was it ever shared with me.
That's what Minister Blair actually said, despite the fact that Mr. Cooper would like to suggest that there is something else going on there.
Minister Blair, when you say, “I was authorized for it to be shown to me”, but it's not something that you actually looked at, put this into context for us. How many documents are you authorized to see versus how many you actually see?