For starters, Mr. Chair, I don't remember agreeing to studying the main estimates on May 10 and May 12, so I don't know who took the liberty to schedule those, and I don't think we should have to consider that as carved in stone. We'll decide when to consider the main estimates, if at all, and not be told when we'll do it.
I would like to suggest, as a matter of fact, that on May 12 we call Helena Guergis. It's a date that we had considered. In fact, I understand Ms. Guergis thinks she is invited to appear on that date. Again, that shouldn't be a reason that we should book her then either, but we have talked in those terms all along, and I was quite comfortable that we were heading in that direction and that we would have Helena Guergis.
While I have the floor I would like to leave with you some other proposed names. On May 5, we should have Brian Jean. I believe we should invite senior staff as well who were named in these e-mails, again keeping in mind that our mandate here is the administration of the green infrastructure fund and if there was any hanky-panky associated with people attempting to access money from the green infrastructure fund. It helps to focus and to narrow our field of study if we have that as the lens through which we look at things.
The names I believe should be listed here are: Sebastien Togneri, who was the director of parliamentary affairs to Christian Paradis, when he was Minister of Public Works and Government Services; David Pierce, who is the director of parliamentary affairs to the industry minister; Phillip Welford, chief of staff to the Minister of State for Science and Technology, Gary Goodyear; Pippa Hamilton, assistant policy adviser to the Minister of State for Science and Technology; and Catherine Godbout, communications adviser to the Honourable Diane Ablonczy.
I'm not finished. I'd like to get all these out, just for the clerk's sake.
We should have Doug Maley, the assistant deputy minister from Western Economic Diversification Canada, and golfing buddy, I believe, of Rahim Jaffer. We should have David Woynorowski, director general of WEDC.
I have a lot more names here, but I'm going to pass on these for now.
Finally, I would like to suggest that we hear from Mr. Wright, from Wright Tech, and the company owner, whose name escapes me, who was in the newspaper recently saying that Rahim Jaffer offered to arrange a $5 million loan at 2% interest. We'll have to do some research to find the company name and the individual, but in a recent Toronto Star article we found what appears to be pretty much textbook influence peddling, in that this individual was told that Rahim Jaffer was in charge of a $100 million green fund and he would get him a $5 million loan at 2.4% interest, payable back only if the company reaches profitability. That guy I want here as a witness because he will be able to testify about what the expectations were and what was being sole-serviced--