They did not know about the cash when they said that the investigation was over.
I can assure you that Mr. Kaplan—and I'm sure you'll have him here—has impeccable sources. They did not know. They had heard a rumour about it, which makes it even more extraordinary that they shut down the investigation. I mean, they don't shut down murder investigations in this country. They allow investigations to go cold, but to shut down an investigation is an extraordinary act by the RCMP, particularly when they had heard rumours of the cash payment. But they had not confirmed the cash payment. They shut it down.
Secondly, on the question of whether they did or did not, I have no knowledge of that. I think you'll have to ask the RCMP. But I suspect what's happening here is that people are playing games with the word “Airbus”. A lot of people have played games with the word “Airbus”. Airbus is one contract, but it's also an affair that incorporates three separate proposals. So people, I think, play with that term to give slightly evasive answers. I would think the example you cited in French is an example of that evasiveness.