Evidence of meeting #42 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 sauvé.
A recording is available from Parliament.
10:30 a.m.
Conservative
Chris Warkentin Conservative Peace River, AB
Mr. Chair, we would be interested in learning a little bit more about this Liberal happy meal. I'm wondering if committee members would be interested in bringing in the president of Mr. Coderre's association in.
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate Mr. Warkentin admitting the irrelevance of his questions, and they aren't the only questions from his side that are irrelevant.
Mr. Prud'Homme, would you say that Mr. Sauvé was politically savvy, yes or no?
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
So you don't have a sense of whether he was politically savvy or not at all...?
10:30 a.m.
Gilles Prud'homme
I have no idea what his motivations are.
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
All right.
Mr. Prud'Homme, you're a long-time organizer. How many campaigns approximately would you estimate you've been involved in over the years?
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Roughly. You know, 50, 100, 20, what would you say? And at all levels.
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Okay. But you've been involved at all levels, municipal, provincial, and at federal levels.
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
That's fine.
Over that time, through that and other work, you must have developed a lot of community contacts. Is that correct?
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
10:30 a.m.
Gilles Prud'homme
Yes, I have met people, but...
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Surely you would have been to many fundraising events over the years for the party. You would have seen the people who go there and you would have some contacts in the business community from those events.
10:35 a.m.
Gilles Prud'homme
I was an organizer. I did it to help the candidates. That's it. It wasn't to help people get contracts afterward.
10:35 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
That's fine. I'm not talking about the construction industry; I'm talking about the business community generally. You would have seen who goes to these kind of events, the people in your community who support your party, and you would have known who a lot of those people were.
10:35 a.m.
Gilles Prud'homme
I have met people, yes.
10:35 a.m.
As an Individual
How many people were at the cocktail? Inside the restaurant, maybe 50.
10:35 a.m.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Fifty? All right. Before this, had you done any fundraising for the party?
