Government Operations committee  Yes. I appreciate your asking, Mr. Calandra. This was quite a point of debate with one of Helena's staff after the election--for me. One of the things you know as an MP...as I was an MP, I was issued a special passport. To my knowledge, I know that other colleagues at the time would use that special passport not only for government business but for personal travel.

Government Operations committee  I haven't seen it.

Government Operations committee  If I can just clarify that meeting so you have some context, I had run into Mr. Wenger on the street earlier that day, around lunchtime. It was close to where my office was located. He said he would like to talk to me about something. I said, “Well, I would be happy to meet with you.

Government Operations committee  I know, but I just want to give you the context. At his request, when we met about a number of different issues that were related to personal things he wanted to discuss, he asked me, “What sort of business are you doing?” So I told him, “Well, I'm involved in this. This is the sort of work we're doing on green energy.”

Government Operations committee  To clarify, I didn't have access to her e-mail accounts. Those are all her own personal info. The only—

Government Operations committee  That's right. It was “Assistant 2, GuergH8”. That particular e-mail account was one that many people knew was assigned to me through her office after the election.

Government Operations committee  As I mentioned, I did not do any lobbying according to the definition of the Lobbying Act. If I had, yes, I would have registered; I would have had no problem with it. Discussing issues, especially of a social nature, with some of my former colleagues I don't think constitutes lobbying, so no, I wouldn't have registered, as I haven't now.

Government Operations committee  But they weren't for business.

Government Operations committee  I would have liked to, but we never had the opportunity.

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  As I said in my opening remarks, the bulk of all my business activity was done on my personal account, a Rogers account--

Government Operations committee  --and also from my business account. There is the odd e-mail that would have been inadvertent, because I think there's only one or two out there that have that “Assistant 2”.... I do take responsibility. I should have been more careful. I either had been e-mailed directly from their staff or the minister or the MP directly to that particular account.

Government Operations committee  One of the allocations.

Government Operations committee  That's right.

Government Operations committee  If the assistant updates the schedule and sends you an invitation, it's updated.