Information & Ethics committee  Yes, that's right.

Information & Ethics committee  To establish the broad outline, there must be some involvement. Afterwards, in terms of the administrative process leading up to the awarding of the contract, there should be a reserve right to withdraw and decide to not get involved. In the example that I provided on the princ

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of accountability, transparency is required. The information would be helpful because of the fact that people who actually gave statements were not credible. They changed their exposure a couple of times. The only way to finally find out what's going on is to have acce

Information & Ethics committee  It was a very good move, but it's hard to say whether it was the most prudent move. The important thing was to ask whether you were abiding by the processes already in place and, if not, which processes you thought that you couldn't abide by. The issue was whether there was any

Information & Ethics committee  No, I don't, unfortunately. I'm sorry.

Information & Ethics committee  I totally agree. Let's say Mr. Kielburger might be telling the truth when he says he doesn't need to do so because of the fact that he's volunteering. Well, that means there is a loophole in the law. He found a loophole. We want to avoid that, so we need to amend the act and the

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I do.

Information & Ethics committee  The word “reasonably” means that the public office holder made an effort to find out whether a given situation would put them in a conflict of interest. That may involve the public office holder asking Mr. Dion, the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, whether taking par

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Angus, will you be speaking in English or in French?

Information & Ethics committee  Very good.

Information & Ethics committee  It's cutting off on me. Could you just repeat the last 30 seconds of what you were saying?

Information & Ethics committee  It's possible. It would definitely have helped; that's one thing for sure. I'm surprised that they would not have acquired the information, but there might be some explanation. To a forensic accountant, it always comes down to whether there is an explanation. If there's no expl

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it is. I would agree.

Information & Ethics committee  I do think you need to ask the right questions, and especially the ones that you know people will not want to answer. There are normal questions that we always ask, and that's part of the due diligence. I think whenever we're in a time of crisis and we're awarding large contract

Information & Ethics committee  The interpretation can be quite broad. In my view, a gift tends to be something you receive immediately, whereas an advantage can be something you receive in the future. That's how I see it, anyways. You can receive a gift right away, for example, a bottle of wine or a painting.