Thank you, Chair.
It's nice to meet you folks.
I have to say that, as a new member of Parliament, this whole situation has been alarming to me. The conversation about what the public knows, without alarming the public, is one that I'm quite interested in.
I would argue that when I go around in my constituency and ask people if they know about this situation, they have no idea and they don't believe that it's happened in Canada. They think I'm a crazy, tinfoil-hat person when I'm talking about the Joe Tay situation.
I'm just curious in terms of the downplaying that we're doing to try to not alarm the public. Comments were made about the actions of Paul Chiang in relation to Joe Tay and then the Prime Minister decided to go out and defend the integrity of Paul Chiang. I know some of you were advising the Prime Minister at that time.
With the situation that Joe Tay was experiencing, how well briefed in advance was the Prime Minister before Mr. Tay was informed or the campaign of the Conservatives was involved?