Information & Ethics committee  She was not briefed by me, no.

Information & Ethics committee  I can't speak to emails I didn't draft. What I can say is that my role was to be prepared to brief on everything and anything during the COVID period. At times we got through a number of files, and at times we didn't. I would always prepare, in the event this proposal were to mo

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. I think I always had to be prepared and therefore I always had to indicate and be ready to brief her on anything, because things moved extremely quickly. I always wanted to make sure that the Deputy Prime Minister and the Prime Minister were prepared

Information & Ethics committee  I can confirm that I spoke to Craig Kielburger and Sofia Marquez.

Information & Ethics committee  No. It isn't our role to verify these things. As my colleague Ms. Kovacevic said, it's really their role.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I was familiar with the organization because of my role as deputy minister of youth. However, on April 20, the organization representatives called me and told me that they had two proposals in mind. The first proposal involved an entrepreneurial innovation program, and the s

Information & Ethics committee  I think they had already determined that the need existed and that something must be done for young people. They had already prepared a proposal for the Canada Service Corps program. In that context, we had the conversation because they knew I had worked for the program and had s

Information & Ethics committee  All I can tell you is that the organization clearly has a relationship with many Canadians, including a number of politicians. I did not have any details on the organization's personal relationships. I had details on the organization and its presence among young people. I was som

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, absolutely. Different stakeholders were contacting us for various reasons. It could be because there was an offer to help or it could be because they had a particular issue within their sector, industry or company. There was a lot of outreach and a lot of two-way engagement

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I think they contacted me because of their proposal, because of my experience with the Canada Service Corps and because of the importance of youth service and what youth were facing in the middle of a pandemic. How could we be creative in that moment to be able to give oppor

Information & Ethics committee  I can definitely speak to my experience working as the deputy minister of intergovernmental affairs during that period of time. It was extremely intense. I've been in government since 2002, and I probably have never lived something as intense as I did during that time. We neede

Information & Ethics committee  I did not, no.

Information & Ethics committee  I did follow up with an email to some of my colleagues, but not on the 20th. On the 21st I had an email exchange with Finance, just saying that this had come to my attention, because what I had told WE was that all of the youth secretariat was now found at Canadian Heritage, and

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. What I did throughout the COVID pandemic, and what I continued to do throughout the summer, was very much focused on.... Every time there was a government program that was rolling out, my responsibility was to make sure that I was sharing the details

Information & Ethics committee  I did. Not a lot, but I did. I had dealings with a number of youth organizations across the country, in part because over my time as deputy minister of youth, we did two, I think, major projects. One was with respect to the Canada service program. In fact, WE wasn't part of our