Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you to our witnesses.
As I stated earlier, it is very troubling, going through this process, and there are a lot of integrity issues here. First of all, the integrity of members of Parliament has been jeopardized here. We have opposition members suggesting that Ms. Block has done something wrong. I will defend her. I think she's done everything right. She did it as quickly and as positively as she could.
That brings me to the credibility of our witnesses here today and their integrity. I'm going to put it in very simple terms. If you were walking down the street and saw an envelope lying on Wellington Street with “draft report” written on it, would you open it and share it? That's basically what you all got.
We're talking here a lot about e-mails. I just sent myself “pbcdraft” on my BlackBerry. In the subject line what comes up is “draft”. Would you then share that draft? Would you share a letter that was marked confidential with other people, or would you immediately try to contact the person who lost it?
I'm suggesting, and I think the question has already been asked, who proactively contacted Ms. Block? Who proactively contacted the chair of the finance committee? Who proactively contacted the clerk of the finance committee? If you did, when? If you didn't, why not?
That's to all of you.