Evidence of meeting #61 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was afghanistan.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
Harjit S. Sajjan Liberal Vancouver South, BC
As I stated, I do not know how the facilitation letters were disseminated.
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Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
How did your chief...? Senator McPhedran said that she sent you the template, or that Mr. Young sent her the template and that you were copied on this email.
She is going to table that communication with the committee. Can we expect, in that communication from Senator McPhedran, to see any of your personal email addresses?
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Liberal
Harjit S. Sajjan Liberal Vancouver South, BC
I don't know what's in, for example, the emails. I can tell you—
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Conservative
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Liberal
Harjit S. Sajjan Liberal Vancouver South, BC
—I did not authorize, nor was I authorized on, how the dissemination of the facilitation letters was done.
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Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
You're not answering the question on whether you knew that Mr. Young had sent the template to Senator McPhedran.
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Liberal
Harjit S. Sajjan Liberal Vancouver South, BC
I do not know how the facilitation letters were disseminated.
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Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
On what day did you become aware that Mr. Young had sent Senator McPhedran the facilitation letter?
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Liberal
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Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
You know now, right? On what date did you become aware?
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Liberal
Harjit S. Sajjan Liberal Vancouver South, BC
I am not aware of any facilitation letters by my chief of staff and how that was done, because I didn't authorize anything.
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Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
After you were approached by a Globe and Mail reporter on February 17, there was article entitled “Sajjan unclear on whether top adviser told him he was sharing Canadian government travel documents with senator”. Did you attempt to contact Mr. Young with regard to this matter?
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Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
When did you become aware that Senator McPhedran had received this facilitation letter from Mr. Young?
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Conservative
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Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
You do realize that this does not inspire confidence. You're saying as the Minister of Defence that you did not know that your chief of staff was sending template letters to the senator.
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Liberal
Harjit S. Sajjan Liberal Vancouver South, BC
If I can be allowed to put things into context here, the number of days that we were conducting the operations, because I was very focused on the operational side—
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Liberal
Harjit S. Sajjan Liberal Vancouver South, BC
It is important to put this into context because of the focus that I had.
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Liberal
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Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
I know. He's trying to eat up my time here. I'm assuming I'm not going to have more luck on that question than the Globe and Mail reporter did.
Do you personally monitor your personal parliamentary email account, otherwise known as the P9?
