Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Ménard. I have to caution everybody that hypothetical questions have their own set of facts. The matter about which we are appearing before the committee has its own set of facts. Two plus two doesn't equal five. If you take facts from a hypothet

Public Safety committee  At that point—

Public Safety committee  First, conversations I have with PCO in private are, I think, very different from conversations that we have in a public televised forum. Second, I didn't have much choice in whether or not PCO.... If I may finish, Mr. Dosanjh, I didn't have much choice. This wasn't a question th

Public Safety committee  PCO is well aware of our policy not to confirm or deny and the reasons behind it. That decision was made, and you would have to ask them why.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chairman, this may be a conclusion that the committee wishes to draw, or that Mr. Dosanjh wishes to draw. I had a whole bunch of hypotheticals put to me, which I have responded to. Let me please finish, Mr. Dosanjh. I let you speak. I made it very clear that I was not, and

Public Safety committee  My brief response is that this was a decision made by PCO. I had no control over it.

Public Safety committee  Yes, Mr. Chair.

Public Safety committee  Can you be more specific with your question? Relative to what, specific relative to what?

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Dosanjh. Nothing changed. I did have a telephone conversation with Ms. Rennie Marcoux, and during that telephone conversation I was advised that PCO would go public with a statement indicating we had not advised them. We discussed it. I failed

Public Safety committee  My preference would have been not to confirm or deny whether we had contacted PCO. This is our position, and should we appear on another matter in a year, that will continue to be my position. I have no control over what PCO does. They chose to do that. We can live with the resul

Public Safety committee  Correct.

Public Safety committee  We could have taken that avenue, but we chose not to.

Public Safety committee  We will forgo any opening comments, Mr. Chairman.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I have no idea as to exactly at what point. As I said at the outset, we know who Ms. Couillard is, but at what point a connection was made as to what I, like Assistant Commissioner Paulson, saw during the swearing-in ceremony.... In terms of anything greater than that, I--