Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Fergus, for providing your comments today. You stated that you were given the assurances that the video would not be used in a public forum.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You were under the understanding that it would be played amongst intimate individuals within Mr. Fraser's team.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I want to go back to something else that you talked about previously. I don't know if it was in your opening statements or was something in response to a question, but you said that you sent a letter to all MPs in 2021 about possible threats. Can you expand on that quickly, on what the letter was about?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You brought it to people's attention. You were trying to signal it. Let me ask you, Minister Blair, how many MPs replied to that, or how much correspondence did you receive back as a result of that?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You mailed a copy to every MP.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  How many MPs replied to you?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  None: You sent out a letter as minister warning MPs—to all 338 MPs—and not a single one replied to you?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Allow me to read what Mr. Blair said on June 1 in the PROC meeting, because it differs wildly from the characterization the Conservatives are trying to attribute to Mr. Blair. He said: Allow me to clarify that the information was not shared with me. It was authorized by CSIS to be shown to me, but they determined....

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry, but is it safe to say that you're authorized to see a lot of stuff that you don't end up seeing? Is that not a safe assessment?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not going to lie to you. At the last meeting we had, the characterization from the Conservatives about you was that you lost the password or you forgot a password to an email address—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm just incredibly embarrassed, on behalf of everybody, when we do this stuff in front of a witness. Would it be possible to either allow the witness to leave or finish the questions? We can then get back to the petty stuff among ourselves without having to subject the witness to this.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm just confused because we have a witness here. (Motion negatived: nays 7; yeas 4)

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They gave a report to that effect.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You are saying before the committee today that, during the elections in 2019 and 2021, yes, you received information, but there was nothing that signalled that it had any influence on the outcome of the elections. I heard you say that earlier. I just want to give you an opportunity to repeat yourself and to—