Government Operations committee  In 2006 our company got a line of credit through the Community Futures Development Corporation, which is an Industry Canada outreach office in the riding. I checked, and we're in good standing in terms of that line of credit.

Government Operations committee  Actually, I have the e-mails. I have it here. I'll supply the committee with—

Government Operations committee  —the document that I sent, which was an overview. It said “Briefing Note” at the top. The purpose of that was a follow-up of the discussion about how Mr. Glémaud was going to determine whether or not this program criteria matched anything we were doing. I just need to qualify that a little bit.

Government Operations committee  We certainly had no conversation about that, nor would we. I don't know. I'm not going to speak for Canadian Solar. I had no idea that a document with the company's name on it was being formally submitted as an application for funding.

Government Operations committee  I certainly was surprised at the level of attention a page-and-a-half document got. I did bring, just for the committee's attention, an application for the sustainable development technology fund, which is a program that I think has a limit of a couple of million dollars. This is the application.

Government Operations committee  Not only did I not know, but also I don't think they were submitted on behalf of our company. We certainly were not signatories to any document, and Industry Canada never sent a rejection letter to us. So my view was that this was a proposal submitted on behalf of their company.

Government Operations committee  Not at all. Obviously I know Rahim, as a former member of Parliament. I haven't spoken with him since before he was defeated, and I don't even remember how long before that it was.

Government Operations committee  Sure. Thank you, Madam Chair. I apologize in advance to the interpreters--

Government Operations committee  It's 15 minutes long.

Government Operations committee  Five minutes is fine. I do want to apologize in advance to the interpreters. I don't have a copy for them, nor do I have a copy for the committee. The confirmation for this appearance wasn't given to me until last Friday, so I didn't have time to prepare. I thought I'd just give you a brief introduction to the company and then the sequence of events that led to our company's name being on a document that was then submitted to Industry Canada.