On the morning of April 9, Arthur Hamilton phoned me and asked if I would come to his office to see him for a few minutes. I drove downtown; I went to see him. While I was sitting in his office, we spoke for about half an hour, at which point in time Mr. Hamilton said, “I've spoken about these issues with the Prime Minister. Obviously the minister has been under other scrutiny for the last 18 months with respect to her other conduct issues. When the Prime Minister leaves the Vimy memorial service today, he will be holding a press conference and announcing that he has accepted her resignation.” I thought this a strange fact. Recently everybody has been saying that he fired her, and in fact she resigned. I was told about 20 minutes before it happened.
On May 12th, 2010. See this statement in context.