Evidence of meeting #32 for Finance in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was pandemic.
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Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
How would you know that he shaped the latest program? Why are you saying that?
As an Individual
I wouldn't have. I make the language as custom-feeling as possible, putting together the pieces—
Conservative
Conservative
Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
Okay.
Well, I understand there were 100 messages. I'm wondering, of those messages, how many did you [Technical difficulty—Editor] thank for helping you shape the latest program?
Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
So would that have been only for Mr. Chin, that message? It's just odd. How do you know to thank someone for shaping a program when you don't know who they are and you have really no idea what role they would have played? Why would you thank them?
As an Individual
Because I put together the puzzle pieces of what they're most likely involved in. They don't necessarily have to be directly the contact or have met Craig. I would just put the puzzle pieces together to the best of my ability.
Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
Okay. So what you're saying is that it was clear he was involved in shaping a program and you wanted to thank him for that on behalf of Craig.
As an Individual
That's a leading question. You're putting words in my mouth to build a narrative, so I'm going to backtrack a little bit there. I—
Conservative
As an Individual
I put the puzzle pieces together as best I could to create custom communication efforts at a mass level while working part time. Yes.
Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
What puzzle pieces would you be putting together to craft a message like that? What puzzle pieces would you have used in order to say that he shaped a program?
As an Individual
I would probably google them. Then I would look into our internal databases and look up the most recent project that we're probably working on with the most relevant group that they're part of.
Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
So that's normal, then, that you would work with someone like Ben Chin to shape a program.
As an Individual
Again, that's sort of taking my statement and then really pulling it into your narrative, but I will say that—
Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
Well, it's just the puzzle pieces that you're putting together. You're saying that would have been the puzzle piece that you would have—
Liberal
Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
Well, I'm just.... What puzzle pieces would you put together? Did you just assume that Ben Chin helped shape a program?
As an Individual
So the puzzle pieces would be.... Where does he work? What projects are people across the organization working on right now? Those are two puzzle pieces.
Conservative
Tamara Jansen Conservative Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
So Ben would have been helping to shape a program together with you. You would have had direct [Technical difficulty—Editor] back-and-forth, then.
