At the end of that same document I'm referencing, which you've acknowledged now, it says that, once the proposal is ready, the foundation will involve Alexandre Trudeau. We talked about evidence, so we have evidence that the president of the foundation met with consular officials from a foreign government to arrange a donation, where they have the brother of....
You're shaking your head, sir, but I'm reading to you from the document. You first said that you didn't meet with them, but now you acknowledge that you did because I brought receipts. We have the receipts. You said it was extraordinary, and you couldn't recall another time Alexandre Trudeau would sign a donation agreement. He did it in this case. The foundation met with a foreign government, arranged this donation, ensured.... It's minuted that it was a requirement to have Mr. Trudeau personally involved.
At the time, even without the benefit of hindsight, could you not see that this was a foreign influence operation? This is not based on intelligence. This is based on evidence. You differentiated them before in your response to another colleague.
I'm seeing here that you attended the meeting, that consular officials from the PRC—the communist dictatorship in Beijing—were at the meeting, that the direction was to have Mr. Trudeau involved and that's what they got. They asked for it. The PRC asked for it, and the PRC got it. The Trudeau Foundation got the $140,000, and the individuals who were cut-outs acting on behalf of the dictatorship both got access directly to the Prime Minister within five months of this two-year process. Within five months, they both had access directly to the Prime Minister.