Evidence of meeting #6 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 schreiber.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Conservative
Russ Hiebert Conservative South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, BC
Okay, so you're stating that it was an acknowledgement letter—
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Conservative
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Conservative
Russ Hiebert Conservative South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, BC
—acknowledging receipt of your documents and saying that they were forwarded to the justice department. Is that correct?
12:20 p.m.
As an Individual
I would prefer you look at the document, because I don't have it in hand. You're now saying it's the Privy Council. Why don't you look at the document?
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Conservative
Russ Hiebert Conservative South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, BC
Mr. Chair, perhaps you could provide the documents to Mr. Schreiber.
Please reserve my time.
12:20 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
We've stopped the clock on your time, Mr. Hiebert. I think it's important that we have.... If the document is in the room, let's get it.
12:25 p.m.
Liberal
Sukh Dhaliwal Liberal Newton—North Delta, BC
Mr. Chair, I have a copy of that letter. If you want, I can give it to you. It is from the Prime Minister's Office.
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As an Individual
It's from theOffice of the Prime Minister, January 22, 2007, to Karlheinz Schreiber, MacKay Lake Estates, 7 Bittern Court, Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Ontario:
Dear Mr. Schreiber:
On behalf of the Prime Minister I would like to acknowledge receipt of your correspondence of January 16.
I have forwarded a copy of your letter and enclosures to the Honourable Robert Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, for his information.
Yours sincerely,
S. Russell
Executive Correspondence Officer
12:25 p.m.
Conservative
Russ Hiebert Conservative South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, BC
So you clearly state that the correspondence was an acknowledgement letter from the correspondence office and that the letter was sent to the justice department, but nothing beyond that. There's no personal reply from the Prime Minister or any insinuation that there was a personal reply, or even that the Prime Minister had seen the letter himself?
12:25 p.m.
As an Individual
I said this is the letter I got. What is the discussion on this? It speaks for itself.
12:25 p.m.
Conservative
Russ Hiebert Conservative South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, BC
Okay. Thank you.
Mr. Chair, I pass the balance of my time to my colleague Mr. Tilson.
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Conservative
David Tilson Conservative Dufferin—Caledon, ON
I just want to confirm, Mr. Schreiber, in regard to the documents you produced to the clerk of the committee, are those all of the documents that you have concerning the issue before the ethics committee?
12:25 p.m.
As an Individual
All that I could work out, and what I had already, in part, prepared, yes.
As I said earlier, when you read all this, you may come up with further questions, and I may—
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Conservative
David Tilson Conservative Dufferin—Caledon, ON
No, sir, I just want to know whether we have everything or whether you have other documents. Because you mentioned before that you had documents in Toronto and Ottawa and Switzerland. I just want to make sure we have everything.
12:25 p.m.
As an Individual
Okay. You're absolutely right, because there are three lawyers in Switzerland, three lawyers in Canada, and three lawyers in Germany, and they have all the documents related to this case.
So do you want to have all of them, or what?
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Conservative
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As an Individual
I don't know whether they'll do that and how that would work. I have no idea.
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Conservative
David Tilson Conservative Dufferin—Caledon, ON
Well, you produce them. You just get them and produce them to the committee. That's all you have to do.
Are you prepared to do that, sir?
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Conservative
David Tilson Conservative Dufferin—Caledon, ON
Well, your lawyers had better do as they're told. Okay?
So you'll undertake to do that, Mr. Schreiber?