Information & Ethics committee  In the early days I was doing a lot, because he had a staff of two. Did I do any fundraisers? I hosted one at my house, yes, maybe when he was deputy.... I got some friends together and, yes, I did do some fundraising.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  In some manner there are book rights, yes, in—

Information & Ethics committee  I do have control, yes. Well, control.... I'm the president of it.

Information & Ethics committee  My father, because he worked at a law firm for the last 20 years of his life, was surrounded by fiscalists. There were a lot of companies, and over the years we've slowly wound them down. There's one left, which includes some real estate holdings and book rights. It's barely operational, but it does continue to exist, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  This is private, probably, I guess.

Information & Ethics committee  There's a lot of innuendo and misinterpretation. I don't think I need to address it.

Information & Ethics committee  The governance crisis, the management crisis, is over. Our inquiry is launched. There's an inquiry into the staff turnover. We know there was some turnover, but there were serious management issues under our former president. That inquiry needs to be done. These are all distractions from things like the work Jesse Thistle has done, which I know well.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  No. He didn't have an interest in donating to the Trudeau foundation.

Information & Ethics committee  There was going to be a partnership. It had to be presented.... As the president of the Université de Montréal stated, there was some reluctance on his part to complicate what he wanted, which was a simple deal of the kind he did at U of T.

Information & Ethics committee  There were no conversations.

Information & Ethics committee  That's it exactly. If there had been damning evidence, I would think they would have brought it to the attention of someone.

Information & Ethics committee  That was China then.

Information & Ethics committee  Do I think what is crystal ball pontification?