Information & Ethics committee  Individuals seek out assistance from organizations for any number of reasons.

Information & Ethics committee  I can't speak to what work any vendor we have utilized has done in the past, or will do in the future.

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of, if you requested...?

Information & Ethics committee  I'd have to review the official request.

Information & Ethics committee  Olivia was an individual the call centre utilized in the text messages—

Information & Ethics committee  I can't speak to who Olivia is. That was the vendor's name of the individual who was sending out the text messages and delivering the phone calls.

Information & Ethics committee  I can't speak to who Olivia is at the call centre. That's information with our vendor.

Information & Ethics committee  That's not the case whatsoever. We had—

Information & Ethics committee  In all of the text messages that were sent out, Mr. Angus, Ontario Proud was identified. These were not anonymous text messages. The telephone calls were not anonymous—

Information & Ethics committee  The vendor used that name. They used this: “It's Olivia, from Ontario Proud.“ It was our campaign. We had sent text messages out. We had identified clearly that it was Ontario Proud. To answer your question, Mr. Angus—

Information & Ethics committee  I want to be clear. The provincial NDP ran an almost identical text message campaign.

Information & Ethics committee  Are you saying that third parties that participate in political discourse are illegitimate?

Information & Ethics committee  They came from the vendor.

Information & Ethics committee  I can't speak to where the vendor obtains its information. I'm not going to speak on its behalf—

Information & Ethics committee  No, that's from the vendor. We have aggregated data.