So you had a conversation with Mr. Szabo, the chair of the committee, before Monday.
I'm just going to read to you unedited copy from Monday, August 11, 2008, of this committee where it reads:
Colleagues, as you know, the committee submitted a list of 79 witnesses. And I want to first report to the committee that the clerk's office did an excellent job to make all attempts to contact these proposed witnesses. The chair had no direct contact with any witness at any time, other than Mr. Mayrand, who you know I spoke to in our last meeting...
Is that true? Can I give you this just so you can read it and just confirm that the chair did in fact make contact with a witness at some time?