Finance committee  I will look into it. I can consult with folks.

Finance committee  Just to be clear, Mr. Chair, they're not my records. I will need to consult with the individuals involved. I can tell members that I am here on the staff's behalf and happy to take any questions they have for them.

Finance committee  Just to be clear, I didn't enumerate, as alleged earlier, the exact number of staff. I said there was a—

Finance committee  Look, a memorandum does not go to cabinet without due diligence being done, and it was then held up so that extra layers of due diligence were done to ensure that everyone felt comfortable recommending it to cabinet a second time. As I've already said, this didn't go the way it

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  We talk to the Ethics Commissioner's office all the time, or I wouldn't be able to tell you that we received clearance from the Ethics Commissioner's office for the work that Sophie Grégoire Trudeau was doing with the WE organization. I can tell you that it is an office that ev

Finance committee  I will repeat what I stated before, which is that the Prime Minister has never received any payment, any income of any kind, from the WE organization, both before and since becoming Prime Minister. That was something we were clear on, and that we had gone to the Ethics Commission

Finance committee  I think there are a lot of other programs that are there to support students, and obviously there is more work to continue to do. As I said, I know the Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth is passionate about this and is working very hard, along with her colleagues, to

Finance committee  As I said at the outset in my opening remarks, this obviously did not go the way it should have gone. I do share in some responsibility for that. Of course I do, as the person who is giving advice to the Prime Minister, but I do the best I can with the best information I have. Th

Finance committee  Okay. If it was more generally, I wouldn't be able to answer. I have no idea. It's been a lot during this period. Specifically on this subject, during that period from May 8 to the following cabinet meeting that it went to—it was about two weeks later—we certainly had a briefing

Finance committee  It's pretty usual. It's the senior officials within the Privy Council Office as well as senior staff within the Prime Minister's Office.

Finance committee  As I've already stated, we spent our time trying to ensure that due diligence was done on this and that this was the right thing to do to support students at that time. We knew the facts as we knew them at the time in terms of the Prime Minister's having spoken at some events and

Finance committee  No, we did not know that or discuss that at that time.

Finance committee  I apologize, Mr. Chair. Something has just come up on my screen. I just need someone to come and.... Sorry, there's a big something.

Finance committee  Sorry, I didn't catch the last part. I had big exclamation marks flashing at me.