Ms. Hamilton, what you had in your hands was a confidential draft report on pre-budget consultations. There was information in the report that you could have used to advise your clients. What doesn’t make sense is that we have repeatedly asked Mr. Ullyatt why he chose the lobbyists in question to distribute and send the report to. But we can't figure it out. I think it is virtually impossible for you not to know that this report was confidential and that you could use it to give good counsel and wise counsel to your clients, as you so well put it. I have trouble understanding that. If I were your boss, I would ask you why you did not diligently deal with such valuable information so that your customers could benefit from it. In my view, that’s where things don't add up.
Another question comes to mind. If you received this information from a good friend, who happens to be the assistant to a member on the Standing Committee on Finance, and you decided not to do anything with this information, why would Mr. Ullyatt send it to you in the first place? I wonder if it was because you had, as Mr. Mulcair publicly pointed out, business ties with Mr. Ullyatt's companies.
Is it not safe to assume that, besides having the privilege of being in the possession of a confidential pre-budget report, your business relationship would benefit Mr. Ullyatt, since contracts are awarded to those private companies? Was the idea behind all this “I give you something and you give me something in return”? Is your company a client of one of Mr. Ullyatt's companies, RU Thinking and Bestmail.ca, whose names have been mentioned publicly? Are we to understand that there is a link to why Mr. Ullyatt sent you the confidential draft report on pre-budget consultations?