Finance committee  I'm pretty sure, because I have been racking my brain on this, that the last time I saw Marc Kielburger was at an event with hundreds of people in Toronto, where I met his wife and exchanged pleasantries. It was a Toronto Life event, or something of that kind, in December 2017.

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  Yes. There were.... On the specifics, I would just say more broadly that policy staff in different offices were ensuring certain objectives were being met through the contribution agreement, but the negotiation absolutely was not happening through the political staff at all.

Finance committee  That does happen. It did not happen, in this case, that I received any unsolicited proposal directly, but that absolutely does happen from all kinds of organizations. Staff in the Prime Minister's office.... I encourage them to be talking to stakeholders and staying connected t

Finance committee  I'm sure there have been. I can think of a number of examples of women's organizations in particular that have contacted me over time that felt they had an open door with me to try to see if they could have more of a role in working with the federal government to promote women in

Finance committee  I can't speak for everyone involved in this, because I'm sure it took a lot of work by both policy staff in different offices and of course the officials who worked on this program, though I do know that many of those same people were working on more than one program and issue at

Finance committee  I don't know.... If you mean ahead of the cabinet meeting, I don't believe there were any dates.

Finance committee  That's right.

Finance committee  I think some of the things you're saying have not been determined. I believe the Minister of Finance has already said that he wished he had recused himself. He's apologized for that and does not believe there is a conflict beyond that, but that is for the conflict commissioner to

Finance committee  The April 9 proposal—do you mean the Canada summer student grant proposal?

Finance committee  Right. It was in a very large briefing package that we received on April 20 ahead of an April 21 briefing. It was annex 9 of that package when I looked back to get some of these things straight for all of you. That annex ultimately was never followed through on, and that proposal

Finance committee  It was so large because that was the package that led to the $9-billion announcement by this government to support students. It included everything, and it was, again, being briefed on the 20th for an announcement that was coming within hours, not days.

Finance committee  I'm sure that policy staff, as they do on every issue that comes up within the government, were talking to each other between ministers' offices.

Finance committee  Can I provide...? I'm here on their behalf, so I'm happy to take a question on it if you like.

Finance committee  That was a proposal that ultimately was not one that this government proceeded with and that the Prime Minister's Office did not approve, so there was obviously analysis done to that extent. There would have been conversations between the different ministers' offices to come to t