Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and I congratulate you on being elected chair of this committee. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, committee. On March 6, 2012 the Speaker ruled the Vikileaks matter closed and found no further reason to investigate. Nevertheless, despite the Spea

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Chair, for the question. The IP address that was tracked by the Ottawa Citizen was a House of Commons desktop computer address.

Information & Ethics committee  My position with the interim leader's office was caucus resources manager.

Information & Ethics committee  I think, going back and looking at that period, the Vikileaks postings occurred prior to the full Internet backlash, predating maybe by 24 or 48 hours the “Tell Vic Everything” hashtag and some of the other activities that ultimately became big news. At the time, as I mentioned

Information & Ethics committee  Most of those documents are available online. The affidavits, in particular, were in our office.

Information & Ethics committee  The postings were verbatim, except that there were a few instances where I removed proper names and replaced them with the terms “wife” and “child”.

Information & Ethics committee  That is correct. Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely not. I think the only people making accusations against the New Democratic Party were specific Conservatives. I recall that during question period that Friday, Minister Baird was quite vocal in his accusations.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I know what you're talking about. There is a specific blogger who's had associations with the Liberal Party who made that assumption. The intention was not at all what that individual misconstrued as being the case. When I first set up the account, obviously I had no idea w

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, of course. They were available in our office.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't know.

Information & Ethics committee  From my understanding, those documents were there before I started with the office.

Information & Ethics committee  It was August 2011.

Information & Ethics committee  Sadly, I've never had the pleasure of being a visitor to Manitoba. I intend to be soon. I've flown over it a lot of times. Again, I don't know how those documents were originally obtained.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't know if I can answer if it's common or not. I don't know. I know that every party has what's called opposition research. There are files. I wouldn't characterize it in the way you have. We're talking about quotes and biographical data. If there is something extra—some oth