Mr. Goodyear, you know that when the committee adopted the motion to do this investigation on the in-and-out scheme, the committee made a decision to proceed.
Order, please, Madame Lavallée.
The committee also decided that we would have Mr. Mayrand appear and that the chair should undertake to have him appear. Mr. Mayrand was contacted by me to have some initial discussions to inform him. He expressed some reservations about appearing at all, because there was this ongoing proceeding—the investigation by Mr. Corbett—as well as the case of the two official agents of two ridings who were challenging or trying to quash the Chief Electoral Officer's decision not to approve the expenses claimed in their advertising expenses. At that time, and as we discussed, at the first opportunity we raised this with the committee that to have Mr. Mayrand appear, it would be with the understanding that he would be able to invoke basically the—