Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, as I said earlier, I'm not privy to the exact details of the conversation. What I do know is that she made a request, as a friend and for a friend, asking a friend to provide—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I've come here because the committee expressed concern. I respect Parliament, and I respect committees. I came here to tell you what I know. I think I've done that. Thank you very much. Thank you for your question.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Wow. I have a lot of friends in the Ontario legislature. It's more than nine, or eight, I should say, which I remember in the party. I have some pretty close friends in all parties. I have been there 10 years. Some of them I worked with from other parties before I got into the legislature.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll say it again: The witness will be appearing here. I think that's the most appropriate place for that question Thank you. That's understandable.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. The tribute's over. Like most of you, I've met a lot of people in politics and in the grocery business. They become lifelong friends. Greg's not one of my kids. He's more like a brother. I've met a lot of brothers and I have kids in politics, like all of you do—people who worked for me 10 years ago when I started and worked for me when I worked for Dalton McGuinty.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I would.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I know she was making the request as my friend—as someone I had known a long time.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  All I can say is that the only other non-family member in the video was my boss of 30 years and my friend. I've known him for 30 years and he was my boss for 15 years. In some ways he's still the boss. He was the only other person to speak. It was based on relationships and that's why she asked.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  He's legal counsel. He just simply informed me that the committee had accepted Mr. Tunstall, and that he would be appearing here at committee.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have not talked to Mr. Fergus. I did talk to Mr. Desfossés three times. The first was to inform him of what happened, and how I became aware the night of. Mid-week, he was just checking in. He called to check to see how I was doing. I told him to express to Greg how badly I felt, that I had spoken to the media and that I was available.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The three people I spoke to were Steve Blais and Kathryn McGarry, who were invited to this committee. They weren't co-chairs. They were actually co-emcees. Subsequent to that, I spoke to Simon Tunstall very briefly, because he was the CRO of the event, and the person best to come before the committee.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was through my family.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Our family gathered everything, including all of the pictures and the video from Dalton McGuinty, and sent it back.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That will have to go to the legal counsel of the party. I'm no longer leader of the party. I know that Mr. Tunstall will be appearing here after. If you're going to make that request, then I'd say that would be the most appropriate place to do that.