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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9:15 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
I don't recall the exact, specific.... It was just through an introduction from someone whom we had talked to.
9:15 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
And no one introduced you to the Remain? They seem to be pretty strong in the Britain market. No one said, “Hey, these guys are really good”?
9:15 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
You don't have any unique skill sets, unless I missed something, and you've got four of these groups that somehow came to you.
Was Mr. Wylie involved in any of those?
9:20 a.m.
Liberal
9:20 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
And you didn't ask BeLeave, “By the way, how did you hear about us?” Did you ask that question just out of curiosity?
9:20 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Okay, so you didn't ask that question.
With respect now to the amounts that BeLeave transferred, £635,000, that full amount made its way to you, though it wasn't your profit. It was to buy ads, correct?
9:20 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Okay.
And there was no coordination, to your knowledge, among the DUP, BeLeave, Vote Leave, and Veterans? There was no coordination between those groups.
9:20 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
We were not aware of any coordination among any of those groups.
9:20 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
What specifically did you do differently for BeLeave that you did not do for Veterans for Britain? What things did you do differently for them?
9:20 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
I don't think we did anything differently for any of them.
9:20 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Okay, so they called you up, and there was no coordination. You did nothing differently, and they said, “We'd like you to do A, B, C” and guess what? These guys called you up and said, “We'd like you to do A, B, C” again, exactly the same thing.
9:20 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
Do you mean in terms of how the ads were placed or just specifically the type of work we were doing?
9:20 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Both the type of work you were doing and the type of work you were doing was different.
9:20 a.m.
Liberal
9:20 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
So with BeLeave, Veterans for Britain, and the DUP, we were doing online ads for them.
9:20 a.m.
Liberal