Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Let me go over the chronology again. On November 27, you decided, against the advice of your senior officials, not to fund KAIROS. That made waves. What made more waves is that, in Jerusalem on December 16, 2009, your colleague Jason Kenney said that the grant had been cancelled because KAIROS was anti-Semitic. In your statements, precisely to distance yourself from this charge of having made a purely ideological decision on the Conservatives' antiquated values, you state and you write that CIDA made the decision.
Let me remind you that, on April 23, 2010, you said this in the House:
The criteria for the funding for KAIROS is the same as the criteria for funding for anyone else applying for such funding. KAIROS did not meet the criteria. It did not get the funding. There was no surprise there.
The criteria referred to must be CIDA's. But we know that, under CIDA's criteria, KAIROS would have been funded. So we are looking for other criteria, probably those of the Harper government, and your own. I would like to know which criteria you were referring to during question period in the House on April 23, 2010. Were they CIDA criteria? Let me re-read the sentence for you:
KAIROS did not meet the criteria. It did not get the funding.
Were you not referring to CIDA criteria though we know very well that CIDA's recommendation was positive? Please answer.