Justice committee  Yes, but what you just read there is interesting to me about making the assertion that everything was okay. I'm wondering who wrote that for you, because it sounds an awful lot like some other comments that were mentioned by Mr. Butts this morning and some people who appeared on

Justice committee  I'm not insinuating anything. I'm just saying it flat out.

Justice committee  I'm asking you who wrote that for you, Mr. Wernick.

Justice committee  Okay, so that wasn't so hard to say. I'm wondering if I could read to you, Mr. Wernick, what Jody Wilson-Raybould said in her testimony. She said: The Clerk of the Privy Council would have known on the September 17 meeting because I specifically mentioned it to both him and th

Justice committee  I didn't ask about that. I asked you whether or not that's a fact in your mind now. Is that an agreed fact between you and me that on September 17 she went into detail about the section 13 notice, or do you not remember it now?

Justice committee  I'm going to ask the deputy minister of justice a question right now. We heard in great detail from Jody Wilson-Raybould's testimony some things that I found quite disturbing, as a lawyer, and I'm just going to tell you what they are. I understand fully that you were directed

Justice committee  Well, thank you for cutting me off, Clerk, but as I was going to say, I think it's incredibly pertinent. You must have had knowledge of it because you gave us almost a verbatim right now about what the content of that telephone call was. Can you not see how disturbing this could

Justice committee  Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Mr. Clerk, why did Mr. Butts say this morning that he was able to get access to his own emails within days of his needing to come to this committee, but Mark Norman has had to go to court to get access to his own emails?

Justice committee  Okay. Then let's try this one. Mr. Wernick, you have given incredibly conflicted testimony, and I am going to take you through some of it. The crux of the issue, according to Mr. Butts this morning was what and when the former attorney general told the Prime Minister himself, o

Justice committee  Okay. Mr. Wernick, you have provided for us your contact with SNC-Lavalin. I find it very helpful and I want to thank you for it, but I am troubled by one thing. You went to great lengths in telling us in your last testimony about how you had only a few meetings with them and in

Justice committee  I have October 15 here in this. Whatever the date was, the date is this.

Justice committee  Here is my concern. You rejected everybody else in terms of speaking about SNC-Lavalin, but you took the meeting from the former clerk of the Privy Council. My concern is this. Section 33 of the Conflict of Interest Act sets out exactly what a previous office-holder can and canno

Justice committee  You don't think that you took the call from Kevin Lynch because he was the former clerk of the Privy Council.

Justice committee  Why did you take the call from Mr. Lynch?

Justice committee  Wow, so not more than two weeks ago when you gave your first testimony about having no contact with SNC, you said nothing about this phone call, and yet today you have—