Agriculture committee  Well, Mr. Pomerleau has no record of wrongdoing in the agency or in the departments he worked for prior to being with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. He has a bachelor of science and a master's degree in public administration. He is a very dedicated worker. He's a simple m

Agriculture committee  Well, I don't know if any of you saw some of the interviews that Mr. Pomerleau gave, but it's—

Agriculture committee  We certainly can do that.

Agriculture committee  I think the process and policy are that each page has to be marked confidential in order for a document to be appropriately marked. The document in question wasn't even marked at all. It was just the cover page of the Treasury Board letter that was marked confidential.

Agriculture committee  I met Mr. Easter for the first time in my life this morning when he walked in and I was here already.

Agriculture committee  Well, it could have been someone in my organization, but not me.

Agriculture committee  Absolutely not.

Agriculture committee  I didn't, for sure.

Agriculture committee  Absolutely.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  He is.

Agriculture committee  He's been involved with the union for maybe five or six years now.

Agriculture committee  I'll answer your second question first. I do not have the document. I returned the copy of the document I had, along with all of the e-mails of the 20 people who received the document electronically, confirming thereby that the document had been deleted from the systems and/or s

Agriculture committee  As Mr. Roberts stated earlier about the fact that all of the circumstances around this are being discussed and represented in front of the Public Service Staff Relations Board in defence of Mr. Pomerleau, I don't think this is the appropriate forum to discuss this.

Agriculture committee  I apologize. In the future I'll say yes.