You're going to love it. I know you will.
Thank you.
I heard some, I think, interesting statements from my Liberal colleague across the way, Ms. Martha Hall Findlay. She talked about, for example, posing with cheques and whether or not that type of thing can confer any benefit for an entity other than the government, in this case the federal government. I think it's an interesting question.
When I look at this photo...and I know that it's slightly pixilated, and I know that you're doing it from a distance, but I hope that people can help me with regard to this. Committee members may be able to help later on in terms of determining what's going on here.
In the photo there's a young lady. I can't make out who she is because I don't think I've seen her around the committee or the environs of Parliament Hill very much. There's a fellow in the background with a beard, playing a bagpipe, and I don't know who he is. But a couple of these other characters here, I think I've seen, and I think maybe committee members might have seen as well. And, for all I know, our witnesses may be able to help me.
The fellow who seems to be holding a cheque here, I think I've seen him quite a bit, as a matter of fact. I think he's probably a member of Parliament. If I look very closely I think he's actually the former chair of this committee, a Mr. Derek Lee, with the Liberal Party of Canada.
If I look next to him, I see another gentleman who looks familiar too. I don't think I've seen him on the committee, but it appears to be John Cannis, who's also a Liberal member of Parliament.
Then just here, on the very edge of the photograph, if I look closely, I would bet money that this is John McKay, who's also a Liberal member of Parliament.
I notice we have one, two, three Liberal members of Parliament in this particular photograph and they're all clapping and looking rather happy about handing out of this particular cheque. Now some might say that because they're all Liberals and they're handing out a cheque, that would confer a benefit on the Liberal Party of Canada.
I wonder, when Ms. Hall Findlay says something like that, whether or not she would agree that three Liberal members of Parliament holding a cheque is conferring a benefit on the Liberal Party of Canada as a cheque-giver.
I wonder if our witnesses have any thoughts on that.