Evidence of meeting #101 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was work.
A video is available from Parliament.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
Yes. They paid us to make it, we made it, and then we gave it to them.
Liberal
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
From whatever reading I've done, you've done work in Nigeria, Trinidad, and Kenya.
Is that true?
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
We have done some work in Nigeria, and we have done some work—
Liberal
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
We did some work for SCL to place online ads.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
It was an independent promoter—an independent expenditure sort of thing—in support of Goodluck Jonathan.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
Goodluck Jonathan, okay.
In front of the committee in the U.K., Mr. Wylie said that the video that AIQ distributed in Nigeria, with the sole intent of intimidating voters, "included content where people were being dismembered, where people were having their throats cuts and bled to death in a ditch. They were being burned alive. There was incredibly anti-Islamic, threatening messages portraying Muslims as violent."
Who did that?
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
The video was given to us, but we were not willing to distribute it or run any ads to it or anything like that.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
I don't know why Mr. Wylie said that. Mr. Wylie was not involved. He was gone from SC by that time, so I don't know how he'd have knowledge of that.
Liberal
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
We were given the video, and, no, we didn't run any ads to it or anything like that. And we informed the client that we were unwilling to do that.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
That was the first work we did with SCL.
Liberal