Information & Ethics committee  I thank you, Mr. Chairman, in particular for your courtesy.

Information & Ethics committee  It will be extremely brief. I want to thank all the members of the committee, from all parties, for taking the time to examine this matter. You'll draw whatever conclusions you think are appropriate. This has been another very demanding and brutal time for my family and me. On

Information & Ethics committee  It's exactly true. It relates to the letter of request with the accusation that money had been received by me from Airbus, Thyssen, or MBB Helicopter. That statement, Mr. Murphy, is absolutely true.

Information & Ethics committee  Was who a big player?

Information & Ethics committee  Of course not. He said in a book he had nothing to do with 1983; he didn't participate in any way. That's what he said in his testimony.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think GCI existed at the time. I think he and a fine young man from Winnipeg, Jamie Burns, had an embryonic organization here called Alta Vista—I think that was it—and I think they worked together, and when he was appointed to the board of Air Canada, along with many othe

Information & Ethics committee  Well, I'm not familiar with the international conspiracies very well. The Germans, the Liberals, the Conservatives, Irwin Cotler, me, Stephen Harper, all of you--I'm not too familiar with that. So I would be like most Canadians: I don't have a clue what he's talking about.

Information & Ethics committee  You know, life moves on. This was twenty years ago. Ottawa was different then; life was different. So you are all to be congratulated for the rigour that all of you now bring to public policy, which is greater than in our time. I think it's tremendous. I think the Accountability

Information & Ethics committee  You can have this debate if you'd like, sir, but I was involved in no such procedure.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chairman, I can't be brief in this response, because I can only go on at length when I'm being taped.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll try my best to accommodate that.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely. I would be, like any member here leaving office, as I've indicated, somewhat uncertain about the future but confident that I could move along. Did I have a ton of money? No. Was I broke? No. I had a wife and four young children and my mother, my late mother, to suppo

Information & Ethics committee  I said publicly that I would not accept any money for myself, because that money would come from the Canadian taxpayers. I didn't want any. I didn't want money from this, although you have to sue for funds to get your case before the court. I have been gravely libelled around t

Information & Ethics committee  If you figure that one out, you're going to heaven.

Information & Ethics committee  This is what he did. This is the way he operated. You look through the correspondence. Look what he did with the affidavit. His movements are determined throughout the piece by his need to avoid extradition. He will do and say anything. If you look at the correspondence careful