Thank you, Mr. Chair. My thanks to Mr. Latulippe and our guests.
Mr. Latulippe, through our clerk, you have provided us with a document whose goal is to demonstrate “due diligence”—as you call it—that you have done on, and I quote: “…the problems indicated to me by the SIRCO firm…”
I have read your report in its entirety. It has 10 chapters. It contains nothing about the computers. I will come back to the Cairo conferences. As to the Alternatives organization, Ms. France-Isabelle Langlois has been cleared of all charges, if I may put it that way. You already mentioned the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Centre in connection with Mr. Akhavan because he was a member of its board of directors. Mr. Akhavan had no conflict of interest. That was what the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner said. It was the same situation for the Iranian film director. Same thing for the discretionary grants for Durban II. The questions were dealt with; those interns never worked on preparations for Durban II. There was no collusion on the collective agreement. In terms of Mr. Beauregard's meeting with a member of Hezbollah, you say that: “the president of SIRCO told me that…the president met a representative of Hezbollah…” You know, those are very damaging allegations against Mr. Beauregard, who is now deceased. It is serious to say such things and to come to that conclusion when maybe there was one representative from Hezbollah in the room.
I remember when Mr. Chrétien was accused of that at the Francophone Summit in Lebanon because someone from Hezbollah was in the room. There may have been 300 people in the room and who knows if they were from Hezbollah. When I go to some of those countries, they all look alike to me to some extent. It's hard to tell, you know. These are allegations. I have one request, one question, for you. Could you provide the committee with the full wording of the mandate given to SIRCO by the board of directors? I would like to read the full wording.
So, you are here to talk to us about the future of Rights and Democracy, but can you really move forward if you do not know what happened? That makes it difficult to move forward. Do you have the tools to move forward with the current board of directors?