Justice committee  I think there's a grey area in what you think is a political consideration, but I think you're also alluding to conversations I wasn't part of. I certainly never made any comment of the sort.

Justice committee  No, and—

Justice committee  No. Honest to goodness, that's not true, Ms. Raitt.

Justice committee  Sorry, nobody told me—

Justice committee  No, nobody told me.

Justice committee  Can I just have a moment to answer this? I think this is really important. I respect you a lot, Ms. Raitt, and we've known each other a long time—not so well, but we're both from the same part of the country, as is Ms. May. We could have a fair bridge game if there were one mor

Justice committee  I do, too. I absolutely do.

Justice committee  I believe I covered that in my opening statement, Mr. Boissonnault, and I also covered it in my public statement. I think I was put in a position where I had to ask my colleagues to fight another colleague over accusations a colleague was making, and I think that put the Prime Mi

Justice committee  Well, as I said to Ms. Raitt, Mr. Boissonnault, I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone or to suggest that anybody is deliberately misleading anyone else. I do believe that it is possible for people to draw different conclusions from the same experience. All I'm doing here is r

Justice committee  A couple of things. One is that the legalities, the law on this, are very fresh. We thought it would be an appropriate step to get seasoned, eminent advice from a jurist that would help flesh out the process around the law. That's all we were trying to do. There was nobody trying

Justice committee  Let me make sure I state that point clearly. The proposal was informed by a justice department memo, which I suspect you're going to want to talk to the deputy minister of justice about later. I believe it was an options memo, Ms. Raitt.

Justice committee  I have no idea.

Justice committee  No.

Justice committee  I don't think so. No.

Justice committee  I remember it in the context.... Excuse me. Sorry.