Thank you, Chair.
Professor Franks, you go through eight or nine paragraphs in which you come to a conclusion. Your conclusion is at the end, on page 4, where you say:
Whether or not Ms. Oda lied to Parliament is the easy question.
You seem to be buttressing your opinion with respect to what the Speaker said on February 10:
Any reasonable person confronted with what appears to have transpired would necessarily be extremely concerned, if not shocked, and might well begin to doubt the integrity of certain decision-making processes. In particular, the senior CIDA officials concerned must be deeply disturbed by the doctored document they have been made to appear to have signed.
That is further compounded by the minister's responses in order paper questions when it says it's “the CIDA decision not to continue funding”.
Do you think, on the face of it, Professor Franks, that this is in fact a prima facie case of misleading Parliament?