It's an observation you might well make as a member of this committee, but it wouldn't be my place to make that same observation, except to bring your attention to the evidence, which includes question 106. I think you're saying the answer to that by the minister was incomplete, and it was an occasion, like other occasions you might suppose, when she could have indicated more fully that the decision was not one that included the concurrence of the CIDA officials. The question itself really doesn't go to that point, and we can only in perhaps a legalistic way say that. The question doesn't really go to whether the CIDA officials supported the funding or not. But I take your point, and that's the kind of consideration you, as a member of this committee, are going to have to weigh, along with your colleagues—the gravity to give to that.
On March 18th, 2011. See this statement in context.