OPP OFFICERS PRESENT WHEN WE WERE WORKING.

At some point, Gair was also “told to start performing the work myself.” Hutchison asked, “If you’d been uncomfortable doing it, you would have said something?” After a protracted pause, Gair said yes.

But after lunch, she clarified that, telling the judge “as a subordinate, I was uncomfortable with the task…” But in her position, she said, “You do what you’re told.”

But she agreed with Hutchison that she was annoyed at the “distraction” during a very busy time when she was actively looking for a new job, among other things.

The prosecution case is slowly winding down. Lemon told Ontario Court Judge Tim Lipson that he has only one or two more witnesses, and that he is considering whether or not to play Livingston’s and Miller’s police statements in court.

Both gave cautioned statements to the OPP, with lawyers at their sides. One of the most interesting things Livingston said was that he didn’t know the premier’s office even had an IT department.

It all raises the question, if the job Faist did was so utterly benign, why on earth did the Liberal Caucus Service Bureau spend $11,000 to farm it out?

Mea culpa: In some print editions of the National Post Saturday, my column about Livingston’s and Miller’s police statements referred to Feb. 24, 2013, as the date Faist did an unsuccessful test run with the software on Miller’s computer. It was Jan. 24. How did the goof happen? Because I am a dolt.