Finance committee  It was the same three your colleague asked me about: Minister Ng, Minister Chagger, Minister Morneau. The first proposal was sent to Minister Ng on the 9th, and forwarded to those other two individuals. The second was sent on the 22nd—that was the Rachel Wernick ask—to those three ministers.

Finance committee  Sir, indeed. Vivian Krause, I know, made that allegation. Frankly, this is just one of multiple allegations that we, frankly, wanted to come here to properly address and correct, because what we've seen in the press that, without sourcing or fact-checking, has been published; what we've seen on social media online; and what we've heard from individuals on this and other matters—it's simply false.

Finance committee  Not to our knowledge. I met him, before all this, once, but no.

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  Not to my knowledge.

Finance committee  Yes, subsequent to this.... Would you repeat the question. What is the time frame?

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  I don't know who that is.

Finance committee  No, we did not have conversations with him.

Finance committee  Sir, what you're referring to are 10 videos that took place with 10 distinct individuals in a 50-portraits individual series, of which—

Finance committee  Sir, I do very much appreciate your raising this because I think it's been strongly misunderstood in the press, that WE organized—

Finance committee  Sir, as part of Canada 150 , there were curricular resources put together that included a 50-portrait series of volunteers across the country in service—

Finance committee  —and 10 individuals who engaged in various forms of service. Being members of Parliament, sir, we believe is service, so we included the Prime Minister for one of 10 videos of other individuals who were involved. Whether it was done in a studio, I'll have to look into that question and let you know.

Finance committee  Indeed, sir. We had both government funds provided and also had, for Canada 150, a number of not-for-profit and corporate sponsors. To answer your question, we'd have to look at this component, the 10-part video series, of the 50 portraits as to where the specific funding came for it.

Finance committee  Sir, to be very clear, we're not trying to hold anything back, but we do want to respect the privacy of individuals whom we may not, frankly, want to drag into what has become a highly political conversation, which is very unfortunate.