Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I think there are three relatively quick parts to that. One, there's an element of trust that the people around John Fraser.... They were giving us videos, and the four leadership candidates were providing videos, and any other content was coming from good sources.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was not aware that there was a video from the Speaker until after it had aired. An hour or two later, somebody mentioned it to me.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There's no short answer to questions like these. Essentially, any political party—and I think ours is not alone—is made up of some staff and a large number of volunteers. Depending on what is taking place and the event, there's involvement from many different people. It varies from situation to situation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's a great question. I apologize. This is going to sound flippant, but I think that's a question for the caucus and not for me. I apologize for how that answer comes across.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, there is an element, I think, in any political party of making sure the line is drawn in the right place between government resources and political party resources.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  First, I apologize if I gave any indication that I was blaming volunteers. I absolutely would not do that. Secondly, I don't think it is within my role or my expertise to judge what is appropriate and not appropriate for a Speaker. I think that is actually perhaps a matter for this committee's expertise and not my expertise.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I've not seen the video, so I'm not 100% sure what the label is on the video. However, the label could have been applied by the volunteers who were putting it together, or it could have been applied by the non-political audiovisual company that was preparing the event and that wouldn't have even been aware of the politics of it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is correct. We conducted voting in 139 in-person voting locations the previous weekend. That was my primary focus, as well as collecting all the voters lists and ballots from those, dealing with the mail-in votes and then preparing for ballot counting.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To the best of my knowledge, no.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not actually familiar with this interview, so I strongly doubt it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Can you be more specific? I'm sorry. That's through the chair. I apologize. I'm not speaking in correct parliamentary terms. That was through the chair to the member.