Thank you, Madam Chair.
I think what we know today is that there are more questions at this point in the meeting than there were at the beginning of the meeting. Unfortunately, Mr. Lee, you've been sabotaged by your own team, quite frankly, and that's unfortunate. Today, we've heard all kinds of things. We've had this discussion as to whether payments were made or not made.
Mr. Lee, if you were sitting before us today, I'd ask you if you knew that the website of Sun & Partners still listed you as a member of their legal team. You are still listed as a member of the legal team. If you were sitting before us, we would ask you about that. You have stated that you have had no financial benefit from the firm or from lobbying government. You haven't stated exactly what financial interest you have had as a result of your partnership or serving as a member of the legal team of this law firm. We don't know if this law firm has ever made a donation to your political campaigns, or the amounts of those donations. I guess we could probably find that information out ourselves.
The unfortunate part, Mr. Lee, is that by being sabotaged by your own Liberal team today, you have allowed there to be more questions and more suspicions than there were when we showed up. So your two colleagues here have done you a great disservice, Mr. Lee. There is more confusion, there is more suspicion, and more frustration at this point of the meeting on both sides of this table, as well as on the part of anybody who would be witnessing the undertakings of this committee.
The rationale for bringing you forward to this committee was the exact same rationale used to bring forward the previous study. There was no objection at that point. As a matter of fact, it was a Liberal motion that brought forward the study of lobbying by Mr. Jaffer. Exactly the same rationale was used for this current study.