Information & Ethics Committee on Sept. 27th, 2018

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

Mr. Massingham, you were talking to Mr. Angus. You said that you did in fact do advertising for Vote Leave and that the million dollars was spent.

What I'd like you to do is provide us with exact details of how much money was spent by you. How much money came to you from Vote Leave? How much did you spend on advertising, and how much was your profit? Do you have that information?

[Zackary Massingham]

I should be able to put that together for you.

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

Okay.

I'd also like to know, for your fiscal years 2015 and 2016, what your overall income was and what your overall profitability was, and linked back as a percentage of this money that you made for Vote Leave and BeLeave as well.

[Zackary Massingham]

We'll take that under advisement, yes.

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

Pardon me?

[Zackary Massingham]

Yes.

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

Okay, thank you.

Did you ever set up a chat room with Slack as part of your work with either Vote Leave or BeLeave?

[Zackary Massingham]

With Vote Leave, yes.

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

Okay.

Did you set up a Facebook chat room, exchange room, as well?

[Zackary Massingham]

No.

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

Did you set up a Google Drive to share data?

[Zackary Massingham]

No.

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

There was no—

[Zackary Massingham]

I don't believe so.

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

Pardon me?

[Zackary Massingham]

I don't believe so.

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

But you did set up a Slack chat room. Is that right?

[Zackary Massingham]

In the Slack instance, yes. But—

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

Was that used by Vote Leave?

[Zackary Massingham]

Just the Vote Leave ad staff, like the messaging staff.

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

Did BeLeave use it as well?

[Zackary Massingham]

No.

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

I'm just going to make sure I understood this.

BeLeave never used the chat room that you set up.

[Zackary Massingham]

BeLeave set up their own instance in Slack, and we provided the screen shots of that communication to you.

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

Was there any Slack chat room that Vote Leave and BeLeave both used?