Justice committee  If I could explain—

Justice committee  If I could explain—

Justice committee  I believe that you will want to discuss this as the intimidation of a witness before your committee and a breach of the committee's privileges. You can take that up in camera if you wish. I will be distributing these to the media.

Justice committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, it has been suggested that my testimony to the Justice committee on February 21 was partisan, presumably in content or motivation. I would like to respond. I would also like to provide the committee with my recollection of conversations I had with the fo

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are two new facts since I last appeared at the committee some two weeks ago. One is the waiver that was offered to witnesses. That will allow different lines of questioning by the committee members. The other is the kind of traffic that I have receive

Justice committee  Maybe the second point. I think that it's not a small thing, but all the contexts between the company and various people were disclosed. It means that the basic structures of the Lobbying Act, which were brought in in response to other issues years ago, seem to be working. You ca

Justice committee  That's a question that I think probably requires legal advice from the clerk, the law clerks, or from experts. My interpretation of it, and the basis on which I have conducted all of the conversations, is that it wouldn't be. The same basic principles and rules would apply even a

Justice committee  The question that I think you're going to have to come to a view with, as will the Ethics Commissioner, is inappropriate pressure.

Justice committee  There's pressure to get it right on every decision: to approve, to not approve, to act, to not act. I am quite sure the minister felt pressure to get it right. Part of my conversation with her on December 19 was conveying context that there were a lot of people worried about wha

Justice committee  I think you should ask her directly.

Justice committee  It will be up to the minister how she chooses to respond to your questions.

Justice committee  As she sees it.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  It's not a question of being allowed to speak or waiving any confidences. She can come here next week and answer your questions with her sense of where to draw the line on the answers.

Justice committee  Close observation—and I've spent a lot of time with them every day for three years—and a lot of interactions. I run the Prime Minister's department. I deal with the Prime Minister's political staff virtually every day, and I have done for three years. I know a lot of them. I spen