I want to go back to comments the former Speaker made to CTV Northern Ontario about a “fine-tooth comb”. The former Speaker said, “Normally, it goes to the Prime Minister's Office and they go through it with a fine-tooth comb, and then the invitation goes out from protocol.”
I'm trying to figure it out. The former Speaker is saying there is a “fine-tooth comb” process here, and I'm still struggling to understand. In this case, he's saying the Prime Minister's Office had the list.
You alluded to this before, Mr. Janse.
I'm a bit curious about the document production we received over the course of the last couple of months or so. If the Prime Minister's Office was not given a complete list of invitees, how is it possible that on September 20 there was a text message exchange between a parliamentary protocol coordinator and the Prime Minister's outreach adviser about a certain individual who was invited, who was on a Conservative guest list? They were inquiring why they had been invited and saying it wasn't on their list.
How did they know? I'm a bit confused about how they would know a Conservative guest was invited if they didn't have the list.