Lest it be missed

I'm not sure how this mostly escaped notice in Kady's liveblog of Ryan Sparrow's appearance before the Ethics Committee. But it certainly seems like the punchline of the week at a meeting whose focus was Allegations of Interference in Access to Information Requests:

Sparrow has no compunction about acknowledging that he is "regularly" in touch with PMO -- coordinated governmental message, remember -- and with that, Valeriote's time runs out, which means it's over to Carole Freeman, who wants to know more about the 51 "alterations" - which works out to just over 20 percent - and whether it would be possible to table those particular media requests with the committee "so we can study them." Sparrow helpfully points out that they're available under Access to Information, but the chair, even more helpfully, reminds Sparrow that actually, the committee can order that he produce any documents...