Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you to the witnesses for coming this morning.
Mr. Kumpf, perhaps I could begin with you. I'm interested in what Mr. Martin asked questions about a few minutes ago, the whole business of allocating different amounts to different ridings. In the documents that were filed with the court in Toronto in application for the search warrant, there was an e-mail from Mike Donison to you, dated December 14, 2005, at 10:36 a.m. I gave a copy to your counsel. I want to make sure you have a copy of that document so that we know what document we're talking about.
I want to read you what Mr. Donison said to you in the e-mail. At the top of the page, it says:
Andrew: Just so I fully understand- I am still to work with the column marked “Contribution”, and that is what we will be billing each of these candidates- the amount in this column, despite the fact that the actual media buy for that region will be less?
I will assume that is the case, and that this is the final list. Please let me know otherwise.
I'm wondering what you responded to Mr. Donison. I'm surprised that Mr. Donison is asking you for advice on how to allocate money to these ridings.