Thank you, Chair.
To the point that Mr. Hiebert made, I think it's fairly clear what the mandate of this committee is. I understood it when the chair read it out to us. It was about public office-holders. I don't know about this, other than calling Mr. Walsh in and simply asking him if it is his legal opinion, in his capacity as law clerk, that they were or were not public office-holders.
I wasn't here at the time, but I believe this investigation or study was undertaken as a result of Elections Canada concerns that were raised with respect to what transpired with election expenses. This was subsequently investigated with respect to public office-holders. As the chair indicated, it wasn't the Conservative Party and it wasn't members of Parliament, and it would have been related to precisely what we're mandated to do.