I'm not sure what testimony you're referring to, Mr. Bezan. I'll do my best to reconstruct the chronology. My research assistants are Google and Wikipedia, so I've been trying my best to reconstruct events of three years ago.
My recollection of the sequence of events is that on Friday, March 2, Elder Marques came upstairs from the second floor, popped in and asked to see me and raised the issue for the first time. That is the first I heard of it. It was on Friday, March 2.
I gather, from reconstructing the media articles, the sequence was that Mr. Walbourne had gone to see Minister Sajjan. Minister Sajjan had spoken to his chief of staff, Ms. Astravas. She was in touch with Elder Marques at the PMO at some point between March 1 and March 2.
He came to see me in the morning of March 2. He said that there was an issue that the minister was concerned about and wanted us to look into regarding the chief of staff. I said, okay, you'd better go and see Janine Sherman, who was my person at the time on senior personnel matters, and that's what happened in the afternoon.
I can clarify one of the media stories on the email of roughly two in the afternoon. It was: You're difficult to find. Can we get together? We're going to have to put things in writing. This is an email from Elder Marques to Janine Sherman.
Then there were conversations in the afternoon of Friday between Elder, Zita and Janine. I was not party to those conversations. I'm not sure that I can put them in the right order, but they were effectively about how best to respond to Mr. Walbourne.
By the end of Friday.... Again, I'm going by a media story. The minister had responded to Mr. Walbourne late Friday evening, saying, you should go and talk to PCO. Then, on Monday morning, after the weekend, Zita Astravas followed that up with a very similar email, which is reported in one of the media stories, saying, you should go and speak to PCO.
Between the morning of the 2nd and the end of the 2nd, effectively, the file was in the hands of the Privy Council Office.