Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  They indicated that they were investigating Mr. Jaffer, but anything outside of that—

Government Operations committee  Any matters outside of what I previously said were matters of information that I would exchange with them and whether they opened up a further investigation were entirely with them.

Government Operations committee  So I'm led to believe by them, yes. I had a—

Government Operations committee  No, I have no idea.

Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  That's fair to say.

Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  I found that out, actually, through the media.

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry to interrupt. This was for my business partner. He could have started with him earlier, but with respect to the lengthened term of his looking into the affairs, I only knew what I saw in the newspaper.

Government Operations committee  He was a friend of my business partner.

Government Operations committee  Yes, we hired him inasmuch as he had shared with me that he would offer to look into the affairs of what we were potentially being set up for. He also said he was familiar with some of the dealings of “these types of people”, as he put it.

Government Operations committee  Well, people weren't jumping out of the woodwork to fund our business, especially because we had an agreement in place with Mr. Gillani's company to take us public and raise funds for us. Our ability to terminate that agreement rested first of all on a time period that didn't expire until the fall, and then on other elements, which included the lack of delivery on the agreement itself.

Government Operations committee  If he had mentioned the NDP, I would have said yes, give it to the NDP too.

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry, I forgot the Bloc.