Government Operations Committee on Dec. 9th, 2010

[Bernard Côté]

I don't know.

[Marc Lemay, Bloc, Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC]

How many times? You don't remember? Very well.

I also imagine you don't know Mr. Varin.

[Bernard Côté]

Yes, I know Mr. Varin.

[Marc Lemay, Bloc, Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC]

Was he at the Mas des Oliviers restaurant?

[Bernard Côté]

Mr. Varin—

[Marc Lemay, Bloc, Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC]

He's there regularly.

[Bernard Côté]

Mr. Varin was there every time I went to the Mas des Oliviers restaurant.

[Marc Lemay, Bloc, Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC]

Who paid the bill?

[Bernard Côté]

What bill?

[Marc Lemay, Bloc, Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC]

The lunch bill.

[Bernard Côté]

There was lunch?

[Marc Lemay, Bloc, Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC]

Didn't you eat with Mr. Sauvé?

[Bernard Côté]

I saw Mr. Sauvé in a public place. As I told you... Did I have lunch with him? I saw him at that restaurant—

[Marc Lemay, Bloc, Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC]

Wait a minute. Were you telling me that you went to the Mas des Oliviers restaurant but that you ate nothing there?

[Bernard Côté]

That's not what I'm saying.

[Marc Lemay, Bloc, Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC]

You don't remember?

[Bernard Côté]

No, no, that's not what I'm telling you.

[Marc Lemay, Bloc, Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC]

What are you telling me?

[Bernard Côté]

I went to the Mas des Oliviers restaurant and I saw Mr. Sauvé there.

[Marc Lemay, Bloc, Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC]

Did you eat there?

[Bernard Côté]

If I went to that restaurant, I believe I ate there.

[Marc Lemay, Bloc, Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC]

That's perfect. Who paid the bill?

[The Chair, Liberal, John McKay]

Pardon me, Mr. Lemay, but Mr. Holder has a point of order.

[Marc Lemay, Bloc, Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC]

Again?

[Ed Holder, Conservative, London West, ON]

It is only because it seems to me that when one goes to a restaurant, one may or may not eat, but constantly asking about whether the person has eaten when you're trying to get to a point of an actual question related to what this is intended to be.... I just ask for relevance, Chair, and to keep it on that point.