Evidence of meeting #113 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 know.
A video is available from Parliament.
Liberal
Anita Vandenbeld Liberal Ottawa West—Nepean, ON
Okay.
Have you ever worked for any clients in Russia?
Liberal
Anita Vandenbeld Liberal Ottawa West—Nepean, ON
Are you aware of any other occasions, other than the Vote Leave and BeLeave, where a client paid for another client's service that you provided?
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
Veterans for Britain also got a donation from Vote Leave, and that's all been publicly reported.
Liberal
Anita Vandenbeld Liberal Ottawa West—Nepean, ON
Is there nothing else where you had somebody pay somebody else's bill?
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
No, for us, aside from that, all of our bills have been paid for by the clients who we're doing the work for.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Mr. Silvester, you stated that the donations between Vote Leave and BeLeave and all that were legal.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
You also mentioned a court case. You knew about the court case in the U.K.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
Yes. I was made aware of that by a gentleman at Vote Leave.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
It went through the courts that it was legal to make the donation.
Liberal
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
Are you talking about the U.K. election law?
No, coordination is not legal.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Coordination is not legal, but donation is legal.
Coordination is not. Is that right?
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
You started doing work for Vote Leave. How does BeLeave know about you? It's not about how they got paid, because that's okay, that's allowable.
How did they know about you?
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
I don't know how they came to know about us specifically, but I do know how they contacted us at first and that was via email. I think I provided that to the committee.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
It's fine how they contacted you by email.
My question for you is, how did they know about you, because at the time—
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
You'd have to ask Mr. Grimes.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Well, I'm asking you. At the time, this was the sum total of your Facebook page. It says, “AggregateIQ, changing the way you work with your data”.
You're a small company in B.C. How does BeLeave know to contact you?
This is all that's on your database. This is your Facebook page.
I'll repeat it: “AggregateIQ, changing the way you work with your data”.
