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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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
You don't have any database that would be unique to anybody saying that they need to use AIQ.
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Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
No, the information that we get is from clients for provision of service to those clients specifically.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Fair enough.
Who are your competitors just in Canada? You've been in business for, you said, seven...and five years ago you incorporated. You must know your Canadian competitors.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
I didn't say that you did. I asked who would be your competitors because I assume that you're obviously bidding on Canadian opportunities, too.
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Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
I wouldn't say bidding. It's not like a public bidding process. From time to time, someone might suggest that so-and-so is looking for digital advertising, and then we submit a proposal to them and talk to them.
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Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
Yes, then we'll see them and talk about it.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
You make a proposal and hope you win the business over someone else, right?
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Okay, the same thing happened in the United Kingdom. You said that you made a proposal. I assume that other people made proposals.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Okay.
What I'm going to try to ask then is this. You did work for four Leave groups: Vote Leave, DUP, Veterans for Britain, and BeLeave. Did you do any work for any of the Remain campaigns?
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Okay. So, you did work for four of the Leave campaigns. What would bring all four of them together to you? Did you have an amazing website? What was it that brought them to you?
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Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
I can't speak on their behalf. I just know that with respect to BeLeave, they contacted us. I'm trying to think in terms of the others. We may have reached out to the organizations and suggested that they work with us, and then had a conversation.
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Liberal
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Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
No, we suggested that they work with us.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
You called up BeLeave and you said, “Hey, maybe you should work with us.”
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Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
No, BeLeave contacted us. They found us.
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Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Okay, fair enough. What about Veterans for Britain? How did they contact you?
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Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
With Veterans for Britain, I think we reached out to them, and again, this is a long time ago, but they contacted us by email.