Evidence of meeting #127 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 business.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
Where does Purolator deliver information or packages, or whatever it is you'd be receiving? Where does it deliver for GHI?
Liberal
Randy Boissonnault Liberal Edmonton Centre, AB
I do not, because I haven't been involved in the company in over three years—
NDP
Liberal
Randy Boissonnault Liberal Edmonton Centre, AB
There was a warehouse that it was directed to on the south side of Edmonton. For a time, it was at a medical supply company that had an extra bay, and then Mr. Anderson picked another warehouse on the south side of Edmonton.
NDP
Liberal
Randy Boissonnault Liberal Edmonton Centre, AB
I can't comment on mail. Mr. Anderson would have received physical mail at a business address.
Liberal
Randy Boissonnault Liberal Edmonton Centre, AB
Purolator reached out to me because for a time I was the contact for the Purolator account, and it was just a legacy number left on their system. That's simply how they contacted me.
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
I would put it to you that within the six minutes of Mr. Anderson's testimony, as somebody who doesn't know him but who has also been involved in business, I didn't see him as being a credible witness. I didn't see him as being credible. In fact, I saw him unravel right before us in the stories he was telling.
How come it took you so long to realize that you were dealing with somebody who couldn't be trusted?
Liberal
Randy Boissonnault Liberal Edmonton Centre, AB
I said in my opening statement, and I'll say it again, Mr. Green, that with the benefit of hindsight and having been dismayed by that testimony, I would not go into business with Mr. Anderson if I had to do it all over again.
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
You were in a fifty-fifty partnership. Mr. Anderson testified that he was drawing $250,000 a year. Is it safe for me to assume that this was also your income?
Liberal
Randy Boissonnault Liberal Edmonton Centre, AB
My income has been declared to the Ethics Commissioner.
You know that when we are private citizens, we don't discuss those matters in these forums. We have a place—
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
I'm going to ask you, because it's public testimony. He suggested, when I put these questions to him, that you were receiving $250,000 a year in compensation.
Was there additional compensation over the $250,000, or was that just your base salary?
Liberal
Randy Boissonnault Liberal Edmonton Centre, AB
These matters have been shared with the Ethics Commissioner, because that's the right place to share that information. All of this information was disclosed in my initial filings to the commissioner.
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
You suggested that the wrap-ups for your payments from GHI were a wrap-up in 2021. What was the nature of that contract, and did that contract continue to be executed into 2023-24?
Liberal
Randy Boissonnault Liberal Edmonton Centre, AB
That's a very fair question.
When I said there was a 2021 year-end wrap-up payment, it was exactly that. It was for work that was done in 2021, but it did not continue after I was elected to office in September 2021.
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
When was the absolute last time you received any money from Mr. Anderson and/or any related parties?
Liberal