Evidence of meeting #125 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was anderson.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
Thank you, Mr. Bains.
Mr. Villemure, you have the floor for two and a half minutes.
Bloc
René Villemure Bloc Trois-Rivières, QC
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to give my time to my NDP colleague.
Conservative
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
Thank you very much.
Thank you to my friend from the Bloc.
It was reported, in the original reports, that the other Randy was the head of logistics. Do you recall that? You ambiguously admitted to working with another Randy, identified only as the head of logistics. Is that correct?
As an Individual
I was contacted by a blocked phone number. This was probably in June—I'm not sure of the exact date—I was contacted by someone calling and asking me, “Is Randy there?” I said, “No”. They went on to say, “Does Randy Boissonnault work at the operation?” I said, “No, they don't”. They identified themselves as Kristen Poon—or, sorry, not Kristen Poon, but as “Krista Hessey” from Global News. I admit that I did panic when she said, “Is there another Randy?”
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
I appreciate that; I actually do. Maybe it's the first truth I heard today. I say this because that is a far leap from an autocorrect. You're now admitting, on the record—and it's important you do that, by the way, because you do have to respect the Standing Orders of the House of Commons when asked direct questions—that, in fact, there was no other Randy in logistics. Now your testimony has changed. Now your testimony is that it was an autocorrect. Is the autocorrect still listing a head of logistics or have we determined that, in fact, there is no head of logistics or that they weren't involved in that conversation?
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
That's not what I asked. I ask you directly: Who's responsible for the head of logistics?
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
Okay.
When you flip back and forth between GHI.... GHI was the fifty-fifty partnership that you had with Mr. Boissonnault. Is that correct?
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
The nature of that corporation.... Was it broken down into shares?
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
When it dissolved it, how did that dissolution of the corporation or of Mr. Boissonnault's shares happen?
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
How did Mr. Boissonnault step away financially from the organization? Did you pay him out?