Mr. Chair, I feel that the long analysis we have just heard of whether or not the minister regrets the way in which the matter was handled has absolutely no relevance to what we are discussing at the moment. We are considering the minister's statement that she instructed someone to add the now-famous word “not”. This statement, her most recent, completely contradicts the one she made here before the committee. I do not see how a person can state that she did not know who did it and then later state that she instructed someone to do it. It seems impossible to me to reconcile those two versions of the events.
One of the two statements is misleading, therefore. That it what we have to talk about. One of the privileges of this committee has been breached, namely that witnesses will tell us the truth, all the more so when they are ministers.