Well, you initiated a telephone call with Ms. Keen on December 5, on your own testimony. On December 8 you initiated a second telephone call to Ms. Keen.
I'm groping--truly groping, unsuccessfully--for any justification that would have allowed you to call Ms. Keen and intervene in this matter in such an extraordinary fashion.
I'm asking you to tell the committee, under what legislative authority did you take the extraordinary step of calling the independent regulator, Ms. Keen, on both December 5 and December 8? I see nothing in the legislation. I don't know if you were acting on advice from the Clerk of the Privy Council, advice from your deputy, or advice from the justice department, but it certainly appears to me that you have clearly violated the provisions of Mr. Harper's code of conduct for ministers.