Thank you, Mr. Spector. You bring us a very broad story as a career public servant who was involved.... You must have felt very uncomfortable when you worked in the Prime Minister's Office. You saw money being transferred. You saw people coming and going and cash being handled. Apparently when you left, you kept records, because a lot of the cheques were made out in your name, as if you were working...as a wage in terms of those cheques.
We also find that later on when you went back to...it must have been British Columbia, when the two parties were being put together, the Reform Party and the Progressive Conservative Party, you had a brief conversation with the present Prime Minister. With that, you and Mr. Harper apparently discussed the situation, and it must have been in terms of the two parties getting together, and the conversation according to your writings went around something about the relationship that Mr. Harper might have with Mr. Mulroney. In that conversation apparently, which you reported in the press, you gave Mr. Harper some recommendations in terms of how his relationship with Mr. Mulroney should be.
As you know, that recommendation that you suggested certainly wasn't followed, because even as late as 2006, Mr. Mulroney and Mr. Harper were having a very close relationship. In fact, the present Prime Minister was very happy to show Mr. Mulroney as one of the architects of his election victory in 2006.
So when you bring evidence to our committee today, talking about your work in the former Prime Minister's office--Mr. Mulroney's--the advice you offered, and the situation as it was, may I ask, in terms of the people you saw coming and going in dark suits and black ties, who apparently had no given purpose in going to see Mr. Mulroney, whether you could give our committee the names of any of those people.