I think that any communication or conversation, whether it's verbal, text message, email, can be subject to interpretation as to its purpose, its intent, whether there was subtext, whatever. I'm not sure it's ever entirely objective. You can read the same transcript and attribute motive or intent or purpose or whatever.
I predict that the former attorney general will express concern to this committee about three events. The first is the meeting with the Prime Minister, which I am happy to describe in detail because I was there for the entire meeting. The second is a conversation between the Prime Minister's Office staff and her former chief of staff on December 18 when she was Minister of Justice. The third is a conversation I had with her in the afternoon of December 19.
How she interprets or perceives those conversations, she can tell you next week. I can tell you my view very firmly is that they were entirely appropriate, lawful, legal. I'm prepared to submit to the judgment of the Ethics Commissioner on that.