If I may, I'll start.
I certainly understand the Speaker's ruling and the respect all of us must have for Parliament as an institution. In my 25 years in my professional career here in Ottawa, I have never seen anything like this or borne witness to anything like this.
The critical point is that in my own case, when we got it we did not forward it to anyone. And the other thing, as per the attestation of our IT professional, it was removed from our computer systems at 3:30 on the Friday afternoon.
Certainly when one makes a decision to take certain actions, one simply doesn't have all the information available to make the best decision. And if hindsight is a guide to us, certainly one of those decisions that we might have taken on Thursday or Friday would indeed have been to contact the clerk of the finance committee, or the chair of the finance committee, or Ms. Block.
But I just have to underscore that this was something we simply had never dealt with before. What we did was take a course of action so that we could assure the House and all parliamentarians that we had removed the document in question from our computer systems on the Friday afternoon, and that it was not shared.