Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Minister, it's good to see you again.
My friend Mr. Holland has been going on at length about how you should have known in advance of Mr. Zaccardelli's bombshell reversal of this Tuesday because of his November 2 letter to the committee, which in my view shows no such detail. But last week when former Minister Anne McLellan was before us—this was a week before Mr. Zaccardelli's reversed memory—she was asked a question from Mr. Hawn. She responded by saying that she knew he was reappearing, and that perhaps--I quote--“He may very well clarify some of his comments on what he knew when.”
Now, I don't want to join Mr. Holland's conspiracy theory club here, but the fact is that this whole mess happened when his party was in charge. They were the ones in charge of this whole mess. It seems that his whole theory got going when our government took over.
Are you aware of any communications that are ongoing between any of your officials or those in the PCO and Ms. McLellan? I can tell you that this seems pretty coincidental to me.