Information & Ethics committee  We want to be respectful of those non-political groups—the processes—so we will defer to them in their requests. If they ask us to share that with you, we'd be happy to, but they're the non-political branch of government.

Information & Ethics committee  We understand...and, of course, Mr. Angus put a letter out to the RCMP, but we haven't been contacted in response to that matter.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, yes. Of course, there's the Privacy Commissioner, the Ethics Commissioner, the lobbying commissioner, the official languages commissioner, the RCMP, the CRA, the FINA committee, the ethics committee, the procedure and House affairs committee—the nine different groups that these MPs have triggered.

Information & Ethics committee  To be clear, sir, parliamentary staff.... Once the committee was dissolved, we were told not to direct it until prorogation stopped. We weren't the ones who prorogued government. As soon as government came back and we had a clerk to engage with, we handed over the undertakings.

Information & Ethics committee  When we read it in the news—same as everybody else. To be very clear, prorogation did no favours to our organization; it somehow made this seem like a larger issue than it is. We were very happy to hand over all the materials within the time frame originally outlined.

Information & Ethics committee  I, Craig Kielburger, do swear that the evidence I shall give on this examination shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.

Information & Ethics committee  Are you suggesting that we both check our emails, if it was just sent right now?

Information & Ethics committee  Excuse us.

Information & Ethics committee  At 2:36 p.m. it was received.

Finance committee  This is decisively not a true representation of what took place. Allow me to walk through step by step on that time frame you outlined. In the spring, like everyone else, we were affected by COVID-19. Like small businesses, non-profits and others across Canada, we had to make many difficult choices and, as the previous witness, Ms.

Finance committee  I can answer it very clearly, sir. There was a public exchange between Jesse Brown and the lawyer—

Finance committee  Sir, I am. Mr. Chair, I am going to answer very clearly with two points. Number one, there's a public exchange on Mr. Brown's—

Finance committee  She had a number of key details, sir. At that point, she said it was 20,000 youth. That changed, increasing to 100,000. She knew that it would be over the summer. At the one point, though, it could have been for the summer or for the full year. She knew that it had to be launched immediately—although that time was then shifted.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, could I answer the question.

Finance committee  I'll just jump straight ahead at this point, sir. I will happily submit to you the April 22 email from me to Ms. Wernick that says “as per your request”. “As per your request”, sir, were the key words that indicated we were sending the proposal as per her request.