Evidence of meeting #10 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was mulroney.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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NDP
Joe Comartin NDP Windsor—Tecumseh, ON
You've taken the position today that when this money was received it was not declarable as income taxable, because you did not provide an invoice or bill to Mr. Schreiber. Is that correct? Is that your position today?
12:05 p.m.
P.C., As an Individual
No, because at the time, what I had used was simply money for expenses, and expenses are not taxable until the matter is resolved and the bill is sent.
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NDP
Joe Comartin NDP Windsor—Tecumseh, ON
Well, you practised law, Mr. Mulroney, for a long period of time--
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NDP
Joe Comartin NDP Windsor—Tecumseh, ON
--before you became Prime Minister, before you became a member of the House.
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NDP
Joe Comartin NDP Windsor—Tecumseh, ON
But you were not treating this as revenue coming in to you as a practising lawyer. Is that correct, from what I understood earlier today?
December 13th, 2007 / 12:05 p.m.
P.C., As an Individual
It was completely separate from my law firm.
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NDP
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NDP
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NDP
Joe Comartin NDP Windsor—Tecumseh, ON
Just in that regard, in terms of employment, when you received the first $100,000--
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NDP
Joe Comartin NDP Windsor—Tecumseh, ON
--the $75,000, you were still being paid as a member of Parliament. Is that correct?
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NDP
Joe Comartin NDP Windsor—Tecumseh, ON
The record shows that you received a payment in August, late August.
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NDP
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NDP
Joe Comartin NDP Windsor—Tecumseh, ON
All right. Were you registered as a lobbyist, either under the federal legislation or under any other legislation in this country at that time?