Mr. Simon Kennedy at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On December 11th, 2020. See this statement in context.

December 11th, 2020 / 1:10 p.m.

Deputy Minister, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Department of Industry

I have to go back to what I said earlier. We had many thousands of firms contacting us. It was our practice, when firms contacted us offering help, to take that at face value and have an initial meeting.

We had an initial meeting with Palantir—

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