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.
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10:05 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
No, you just said you would answer more questions. Did you say it's closed?
10:05 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
I did say it was closed, yes. We believe it's closed.
10:05 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
If it's closed, how are you going to answer more questions?
10:05 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
So it's closed in your mind, but you're going to answer more questions. I just want to understand.
10:05 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Just so I'm sure, you also mentioned to my colleague there that you're not obfuscating. I just want to make sure that what you're doing now is not obfuscating.
10:05 a.m.
Liberal
10:05 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
No, you're answering very clearly.
You said you've closed the investigation. You decided that. They didn't decide that.
10:05 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
We believe we answered everything they asked, and thus we thought it was closed.
10:05 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
You said it was closed. Are you answering more questions?
10:05 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
I asked you why there was a disconnect. Did it not dawn on you when you wrote this that you did not answer any of her questions and that's why she wanted to take legal action against you?
10:05 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Not after the meeting. When I asked you that the last time you were here, you obfuscated—and, quite frankly, Mr. Silvester, you lied to me. Now you're here again and you're under oath. This is what was written in the letter. Is it not clear to you that you did not answer her questions, and that you told her, by unilaterally saying it was closed, that you were not going to answer her questions?
10:05 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
I didn't lie to you before, and with respect to your bringing up that issue, I did wonder how she came to that conclusion. That's why we reached out afterwards to have a conversation directly with her. We heard back from them as to why they thought—
10:05 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
You wondered how she got to that conclusion. When you said your involvement in the investigation is closed and that you weren't subject to her jurisdiction, you wondered how she came to that conclusion? You just said that.
10:05 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
I want to make sure. You wondered how she got to that conclusion?
10:05 a.m.
Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ
Yes, because I never said I wouldn't answer more questions.
10:05 a.m.
Liberal
Frank Baylis Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Let me ask you something. If I asked you a question and you told me, I'm not subject to your jurisdiction and the investigation is closed, would you wonder how I came to the conclusion that you're not co-operating?