Information & Ethics committee  As a volunteer for the charity, and as you are aware, volunteers are not required to register for lobbying, and most importantly is the false characterization of what took place. On April 19 I was contacted—

Information & Ethics committee  My apologies. We can hear you clearly now. Thank you. The WE Charity Foundation returned in total all the funds transferred to it from the federal government, and WE Charity absorbed the $5-million loss—

Information & Ethics committee  It is in the process of closing down in Canada, but it is still legally operational until it's closed.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Sorbara, allow me to take one second.

Information & Ethics committee  You made a very serious and strong statement, sir. I just want to make it very clear that we willingly agreed to come when the request came from this committee. We were scheduled months ago to be here. It was a week prior when Mr. Angus sent, on member of Parliament letterhead....

Information & Ethics committee  Sir, I appreciate the words. What I would say is that the former assistant deputy minister perhaps has an alternative view on that matter, but I appreciate that.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely not.

Information & Ethics committee  We're here to answer the questions the committee may have, sir.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  They were undertaken as one would suspect. They were done in appropriate manners. They were fulfilled per requests, and the civil service would be the group to direct it to, but based on the good work of the organization, that's why I suspect the civil service approached the organization to ask for its help with the CSSG.

Information & Ethics committee  There's nothing that we're concerned about. Candidly, we're more confused by the request than anything else.

Information & Ethics committee  Are you thinking of a time frame, sir?

Information & Ethics committee  Just so we're clear on the nature of your request, are you asking about before she was in the civil service? Are you asking us to go all the way back to any communications we've ever had with her? Is there a time frame you could put to this?

Information & Ethics committee  Can someone define an “officer of Parliament”, please?

Information & Ethics committee  We can confirm that we've worked with multiple commissioners to provide information requested.