Madam Chair, we do know that Mr. Lee has confirmed that he did see a copy of the biography prior to it being up on the website of Sun & Partners. The biography reads, and I'm quoting:
...include acting for foreign and offshore organizations in obtaining operating licenses, securing regulatory and governmental approvals for mergers and acquisitions...advising government bodies on international issues regarding cross-border tax collection, anti-dumping issues, and lobbying government...
Let's remember what it says here:
...and lobbying government on policy issues as well as facilitating inter-governmental relationships.
We had Mr. Jaffer and his partners before the committee because of a statement that was made on a website. These websites are intended to solicit business. They solicit business either for Mr. Lee directly or through his partnership with the law firm on whose website this biography appeared. So to state that Mr. Lee didn't benefit financially from having this on the website doesn't mean that his partners didn't financially benefit from this being included on their website. We need to have Mr. Lee clear the air. We need to understand why, when he saw what his biography on the website would include, he didn't raise some type of condition, or why, if he didn't think it was correct, he didn't correct it before it went on. It's been on there for years. Why in that duration of time did he take no action to correct it, especially when we saw that there was suspicion being brought forward about other people undertaking this type of conduct?
Clearly we need to have these questions answered. We need to have them answered by this committee, because it's the same committee that brought forward the same allegations in order to investigate the green fund. Now we want to specifically undertake a review of whether in fact Mr. Lee has had an impact on the specific areas he claims, on the website of Sun & Partners, he'd have an influence on. Those are government operations business areas. Clearly, talking about acquisitions of foreign companies and making regulatory changes to assist certain companies would be within this committee's mandate, so I think it's important that we now set aside the next meeting to undertake this study.