Right, so I'm looking at one of those emails, dated November 24, 2016, from Elise Comtois directly to Zita Astravaz, an executive member of the Prime Minister's Office, and it starts off as follows:
Hi Zita,
As requested—
That means requested by the PMO.
—please find below the key facts that we have been providing to the media who have contacted us regarding the $200,000 donation from Bin Zhang and Niu Gensheng:
You were saying to us, to the committee, then, as you're probably going to say to me now, that you were absolutely not aware of that particular piece of communication.