Evidence of meeting #18 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was gillani.
A recording is available from Parliament.
4:15 p.m.
Liberal
Alexandra Mendes Liberal Brossard—La Prairie, QC
I'd like to go, just quickly, to Ms. Guergis's letter to the councillor in the County of Simcoe. After that letter was sent by Ms. Guergis to the county, was there any other follow-up from Ms. Guergis's office? Did they try to find out?
4:15 p.m.
Liberal
Alexandra Mendes Liberal Brossard—La Prairie, QC
So you never heard from them again.
Did you hear anything from the county directly?
4:15 p.m.
Liberal
Alexandra Mendes Liberal Brossard—La Prairie, QC
Okay.
Have you been contacted by the RCMP at all, around this subject?
4:15 p.m.
Liberal
4:15 p.m.
Liberal
Alexandra Mendes Liberal Brossard—La Prairie, QC
Okay.
Before I pass this on to my colleague, did you witness any behaviour by either Ms. Guergis or Mr. Jaffer that would eventually be cause for blackmail?
4:15 p.m.
Chairman, Wright Tech Systems
We talked on the phone that time about a letter, but I hadn't gone to any of the other meetings. When Mr. Jaffer got into trouble with the driving incident, we kind of moved on.
4:15 p.m.
Liberal
Siobhan Coady Liberal St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL
Thank you very much.
Again, thank you for your candour today. I would love to be able to provide you the departmental analysis on the submission that was made for the $100 million, but we don't have it. We do have it for other submissions, but not for this particular one. So I'll simply say that.
We do have the executive summary, if I can use that term, that does talk about the project developer being Green Rite Solutions, an Ontario corporation, and that the project proponent will build and operate eleven different facilities located in municipalities across the country. They went so far as to use your company to say they were going to do all this manufacturing, build these eleven facilities.
I find it unusual—and I'd like your perspective on it—that the Government of Canada, through this access that they gave Jaffer's company to submit this proposal, didn't do due diligence to actually talk to anyone in your company.
We do have e-mails that went to a Mr. Jerry McLeod of your company, but that's the only connection.
4:20 p.m.
Chairman, Wright Tech Systems
I don't know about that. When I see Jerry tomorrow, I'll give him a shout. I'm seeing him at 1:30 tomorrow. I never heard of that.
4:20 p.m.
Chairman, Wright Tech Systems
That is a big surprise to me, that's God's truth. I didn't know that.
4:20 p.m.
Liberal
