Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Time is short, so I will go directly to my point.
You said earlier that you did not know whether the RCMP was aware of the payments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from Mr. Schreiber to Mr. Mulroney. You added that Mr. Gray never raised this issue with you, but that it was up to you to decide whether or not to settle the Mulroney-Schreiber affair.
What concrete steps did you take to find out about this matter? What did you do to learn more about the file? Did you ask what was known before deciding to pay out $2.1 million in taxpayers' money?