When the minister came back to committee in September with these fresh text messages—fresh insofar as they had just recently been made public—my colleague, Mr. Barrett, put it to him that he was obviously that Randy.
The minister, confronted with the text messages, admitted that he was in Vancouver on September 6. Then he provided new information that he had withheld from the committee, which is that he had texted and spoken with Anderson on September 6.
When the minister came in June, he would have had committee believe that he had nothing to do with Anderson, that upon being elected in 2021, other than having a 50% ownership stake, which is a pretty big deal, he never spoke to this guy, that he had nothing to do with the operations of the company and that he was totally oblivious to what was going on.
Then he came back, and, confronted with text messages placing him in Vancouver at the same time that Anderson referred to a Randy in Vancouver, he suddenly said, “Oh, by the way, I spoke with Anderson.”
That constituted a material omission on the part of the minister. The minister, for all intents and purposes, by his omission, misrepresented to this committee his dealings with Anderson.