Foreign Affairs committee  I have closed the SIRCO file. I am the one who said enough is enough, that we are going to put a stop to investigations and reports. I took a stand on that and so I put my job on the line. SIRCO is over and done with. The board of directors voted unanimously for that. The board's

Foreign Affairs committee  What we want to do is move out of doing only grants. In the case of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, it was in fact discussed at length in the Deloitte report. We're not going to leave all grants apart, but we are still going to do some grants. You know, when you go to a

Foreign Affairs committee  The wording of the mandate has two parts to it. Are you talking about SIRCO?

Foreign Affairs committee  You received that document. It was submitted to the committee. Essentially, it had to do with the dismissal of the three directors. What did SIRCO do? I am not justifying the company's actions. It took 20,000 emails and picked some of them which lawyers used in the process of dis

Foreign Affairs committee  You asked me and I am going to tell you. They were asked to investigated the theft of computers. I personally left that with the police. It is not up to SIRCO to investigate the theft of computers; it is up to the police. The police found no suspects. They investigated the matter

Foreign Affairs committee  That's music to my ears and gives a specific case of what we can do easily. That's one of the new strategic objectives of our organization, to work in those types of projects. Until now, we have worked, essentially, on civil society, with civil society organizations. We should in

Foreign Affairs committee  Since January 20, the board of directors and I have closed the door to the past. I have put an end to the investigations and reports. I have done nothing more than report the facts as told to me by Mr. Sarrasin. I have just reported the facts. With that done, we have to build for

Foreign Affairs committee  Maybe I can give you an example of what we just did in Egypt. It is interesting. We supported the training of bloggers, teaching them how to use and secure blogs and how to use that for promoting democracy and human rights in Egypt. This is quite useful. We need to want a more

Foreign Affairs committee  Everywhere we work we have to put more emphasis on the reinforcement of democratic institutions, to play a better role in increasing democracy. That is whether it is Parliament, political parties, civil society, or other institutions that have a role in democracy. Let me give yo

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll give you an example of what we can do. There are so many countries where parliamentarians and citizens are very far apart. There is a gap, a credibility gap. We can bring those countries' MPs together with their constituents. I've done that in the past in many countries of t

Foreign Affairs committee  —except they are going to give the information to the security service.

Foreign Affairs committee  What I understand and what I was told on many, many occasions and from documents I've seen, the former president concentrated his efforts.... The aim was that SIRCO would serve for the firing of the three directors, and that he put an end to SIRCO's mandate. What I did when I arr

Foreign Affairs committee  There's no investigation on the other matters. There's no investigation.

Foreign Affairs committee  He was raising with me the fact—and this was a concern to me also—that a certain number of persons who were participating at the Cairo conference did have relations with terrorists.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's what he said to me.