Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Ullyatt, thank you for being here today for a second time. I know it must not be easy for you to be here, before us once again.
First I want to help you understand something about the questions I'm going to ask you. We think it's important to understand the reasons why the confidential document was leaked so that we can prepare a report containing good recommendations to avoid or prevent other leaks.
To my mind, we must determine whether this is an isolated incident or whether it is the act of an ambitious assistant who made a mistake and got caught. I believe the issue at today's meeting is to understand what happened, that is to understand your reasons. That takes us back to Ms. Block's testimony. In her testimony, she told us that she explained your position description to you in detail when you were hired.
In your CV, which we received last week, we see the scope of your duties. You had a lot of normal duties for a parliamentary assistant on Parliament Hill, since Ms. Block told us that you mainly worked in Ottawa. She also assigned you duties to maintain permanent positive relations with members of the community, representatives and donors; to supervise volunteers responsible for updating the constituency data base, which contains 105,000 entries. So in addition to your parliamentary work, she assigned you what seemed to me to be partisan duties.
Mr. Ullyatt, at your meeting with Ms. Block, did the position description she showed you match what appears in your curriculum vitae?