Natural Resources committee  Why am I doing this?

Natural Resources committee  I'll be glad to answer your question. The reason I'm doing this, sir, is that no one else did. Frankly, the work I've done I think is important. It shouldn't have been done by an unpaid lay blogger working on her dining room table using Google. It should have been done by the med

Natural Resources committee  If you are saying that foreign investment in a Canadian industry should be out in the open, I agree with you. When foreign funding to the critics of industry is coming from a hedge-fund billionaire and billion-dollar foundations whose expressed interest is the energy security and

Natural Resources committee  Many other journalists have already done it. It's already out there. No one was looking into the foreign funding of the environmental movement, and that's why I did.

Natural Resources committee  I think it's obvious that they have used my research in their campaign, but they have done so without my permission. Frankly, in some cases they have inaccurately quoted my research, and I've insisted on having the record corrected. I'm not part of that campaign. The point I'm

Natural Resources committee  I was just going to say that in the public debate the emphasis has been put on the fact that the money is foreign. I've been trying to put the emphasis on the fact that it's big. If you look at my blog, you'll notice that I've also drawn attention to the money from big sources in

Natural Resources committee  With respect, sir, you're putting words in my mouth that I haven't said. What I can tell you is what is written down in the tax returns--

Natural Resources committee  Please do.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, well I understand commercial interests to be a particular company, and I don't see any evidence of that. What I do see is--

Natural Resources committee  I'd be glad to respond to your question. What I do see is that wealthy Americans have the interest of their own country at heart, as, I think, do we. My impression is that perhaps what is driving this is the overall broad interest of the American economy. I think one of the bes

Natural Resources committee  I'm saying that I believe that the--

Natural Resources committee  I would say I do have evidence, but not of commercial interests. I think there is evidence of the motivations. They're clearly written down. I think they are mixed and that there is a real true interest in protecting the environment and addressing the true environmental impacts o

Natural Resources committee  Well, sir, first of all let me say, just to give you the right numbers, I did work for a Conservative MP for four weeks, and I was fired.

Natural Resources committee  I worked for the United Nations in the poorest countries of the world for ten years.

Natural Resources committee  I also worked for the salmon farming industry. That was ten years ago. For the last five years, I've been working on this unpaid. I'm not paid by anybody, okay? Could you remind me again what your second point was?