Something strange happened at the last meeting when we invited Mr. Pelletier to explain contradictory testimony between his appearance here and his appearance at Gomery. He spoke of a Privy Council request that he look into a donation to the Liberal Party of Canada. This raised some serious alarm bells for me about why the Privy Council would be involved in monitoring donations to the Liberal Party. In particular, he indicated that the Privy Council asked about a donation to the Liberal Party and actually knew the account number whence that donation came. That's clearly in the testimony.
I'm just requesting the chair write a letter to the current Clerk of the Privy Council to inquire why in that instance the Privy Council would have been cognizant—