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.
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10:30 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
Not for client purchasing, but for licensing. We have not been able to do that yet.
10:30 a.m.
Conservative
10:30 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
We've approached people, and we have had someone who we thought was going to move forward with it. They opted not to, and recently we had a few more and they've opted to delay for the time being.
10:30 a.m.
Conservative
Peter Kent Conservative Thornhill, ON
Obviously you would be discreet and not share with the committee who those potential clients might have been?
10:30 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
We do owe confidentiality to our clients.
10:35 a.m.
Conservative
10:35 a.m.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
Part of what has transpired has been because of one survey, but I'm sure multiple surveys occurred. Has there been any data transfer between Cambridge Analytica and AIQ not only on this topic, but on other subjects?
10:35 a.m.
Liberal
10:35 a.m.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
I have in front of me testimony from Brittany Kaiser who was the former director of program development at Cambridge Analytica, and this is the testimony she gave in the House of Commons committee. MP Ian C. Lucas asked her, “Did you know that Cambridge Analytica had an agreement with AIQ to transfer data?”
Her answer was, “We would have had that, because that would have been essential to our work on Senator Ted Cruz's presidential campaign”.
Is that incorrect?
10:35 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
The work we did on Ted Cruz's campaign was through SCL, but at the time—
10:35 a.m.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
Just to remind you that she is the former director of program development at Cambridge Analytica.
10:35 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
I'm aware that SCL had some relationship with Cambridge Analytica.
I don't know the extent of that relationship.
10:35 a.m.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
She's confident that there was an agreement between Cambridge Analytica and AIQ to transfer data.
10:35 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
We have no agreements with Cambridge Analytica.
10:35 a.m.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
She says, “We would have had that, because that would have been essential to our work on Senator Ted Cruz's presidential campaign”.
10:35 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
We have no contracts with Cambridge Analytica.
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Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
Then MP Lucas on a follow-up says, “Can you confirm that Cambridge Analytica transferred data to AIQ?”
Her answer was:
...the essential relationship between AIQ and Cambridge Analytica—or the SCL group—was that AIQ had built platforms that we used to collect data, so we would have had to transfer data between ourselves for us to access that.
10:35 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
As I mentioned, we did create that software for SCL and we talked about that earlier, the political customer relationship management. That platform would track that, if candidates were going door-to-door, making phone calls, this sort of thing.
10:35 a.m.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
You are saying right now that you received no transferred data from Cambridge Analytica?
10:35 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
I'm saying we received information from SCL, but not from somewhere else.
