Mr. Jaffer is Mr. Gillani's business partner. They are in a business relationship. This comes back to Mr. Martin's question: this is an issue of optics. When the Minister for Status of Women is dining in a restaurant with a man awaiting trial on serious crimes and with a history of serious criminal activity, and the man is with an escort and is a business partner of Mr. Jaffer, given the recent attention she had received, you tell me how the Hill here would have responded to that photograph or that video showing up. You'd be back in it.
On May 12th, 2010. See this statement in context.