Information & Ethics committee  I'll be super-clear. When I'm talking about voter suppression, I'm not speaking about vote caging, or literally removing people from the electoral register. What I'm talking about is targeting particular groups of people with messages that will disengage, frustrate, or confuse th

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  First of all, I haven't worked for the Liberal Party of Canada, the political party.

Information & Ethics committee  The research bureau at the time was looking for ways to optimize caucus communications, of responding better to constituents, constituent communications, and also providing the caucus with ongoing information as to, for example, what people are speaking about on Twitter. A lot of

Information & Ethics committee  Honestly, I'm actually speechless that he said that. I honestly have no idea how to explain that. I think it's unfortunate because there's a lot of information that I think is really important for people, regulators, and legislatures to know about. They had every opportunity to p

Information & Ethics committee  I'm okay.

Information & Ethics committee  It was simply because that's where Jeff Silvester and Zack Massingham lived and wanted to stay. They wanted to participate in SCL projects, but they had the temporal and geographic constraint of being in Canada rather than moving to the U.K., so the company accommodated that.

Information & Ethics committee  Sorry, when you refer to the source of the information, are you referring to the Kogan project? Is that what you're referring to?

Information & Ethics committee  This is not intended to be a difficult answer. It's just that it depends, really, on the project and the data source that you're talking about. For example, the Facebook dataset was acquired by Aleksandr Kogan using apps from Facebook. Other datasets were acquired, some at the i

Information & Ethics committee  They were fully aware. They came to the U.K. all the time. I think they might have even met Aleksandr Kogan. I'm not sure exactly if they had or not. But I recall their being there when Aleksandr Kogan was in the office, also. I find it—

Information & Ethics committee  I find it really difficult to believe that they went through an extensive contacting process, an extensive technical specification and did not understand the specification that they were co-writing.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. It happened in the spring of last year in Victoria, British Columbia. The words “totally illegal” I distinctly remember. I stand by my recollection of that.

Information & Ethics committee  No, that's not true. I have all of the text messages from Jeff Silvester at that time. I absolutely do not recall his correcting his statement via text message.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't believe that for a minute.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure, absolutely. What I'll do is speak to my lawyers, and we'll find the best way to provide you with the information that you would like.