Finance committee  It would depend on the facts of the case. If there were—and let's use our imaginations here—a wide variety of organizations, and if there were time to do it, there might very well be a formal competitive process. There could be a call for proposals in a formal competitive process

Finance committee  Well, Chair, you're revealing our techniques—that we often provide ministers with an unacceptable option, another unacceptable option and the right option. I'm making light of it of course, and I want to be clear to the Canadian public about that. Again the facts will determine

Finance committee  If there are relevant documents in that regard, Chair, I would be happy to have them provided to the committee. I think it would be appropriate for the committee to see the contribution agreement with WE Charity. I would have no objection to the contribution agreement being mad

Finance committee  Chair, I understood perfectly, and I undertook to provide both.

Finance committee  I will repeat them, Mr. Chair. What I said is that I could not imagine how the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance could not have been involved as part of this process. I did not refer specifically to recusal at cabinet. I indicated that this was a fundamental policy iss

Information & Ethics committee  Madam Chair, I don't have an opening statement. Perhaps the only comment I would make is that I first began engaging with members of Parliament 40 years ago this summer. As a public servant, I have many times appeared before parliamentary committees. I understand absolutely the

Information & Ethics committee  I certainly would make them available to any committee of the House. I'm not familiar with the procedures across committees, but I would be absolutely prepared to make the same material available.

Information & Ethics committee  As far as I know, Chair, again, I believe the law clerks of parliamentary committees do some examination of the documents. I gather there are still some translation issues, so what will be provided and has been provided is entirely in the hands of the committee, at that point.

Information & Ethics committee  It was in person, but I would mention that during this entire period, because people have been working at a distance, typically in our briefings of the Prime Minister, certainly by the time he was no longer in isolation, it would have been a mix of people in the room and on the p

Information & Ethics committee  I can't be definitive; I assume not. I do know that in one case where I was asked to provide a Zoom recording of a particular meeting and I undertook to do so, if there were a recording, it transpired that there was not a recording. So to the best of my knowledge, there were not

Information & Ethics committee  Well, the questions were specific, and the answers, I think, were taken as honest and true answers. It was a serious question and taken as such. Officials gave their best answers.

Information & Ethics committee  You mean for documentary evidence, for example?

Information & Ethics committee  No, he did not as I recall.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  No.