Mr. Chair, if I recall, you said to me earlier today that we have all the information you have. You said that, and I'm going to repeat that the only documentation you had that we don't have is in fact a request from Madam Jennings for testimony. We have not received anything we have requested. Now you are admitting information that you told the committee earlier today you don't have. This is so seemingly.... I'm not going to use that word because it's way beyond that.
Mr. Muttart, who was not summoned, is in the court proceeding. He has, through his people, been talking to the clerk's office for a number of days requesting a simple thing. Were you going to offer him the same special backroom deal, the Mayrand accommodation, or was he not going to be afforded that? The clerk sent basically a non-response, “See attached”, which was the letter from Robert Walsh. As a result--and I'm telling you I got this letter just recently--Mr. Muttart is not going to appear because it would jeopardize his testimony in a real court room.
Mr. Chair, I believe you knew this was coming before today. If you didn't, your clerks knew there was a problem. The simple answer was this. Were you going to make another deal with Mr. Muttart, yes or no?