Thank you.
Mr. Lavoie, one of the big mysteries of this, and Canadians really want the answer, is was it $300,000 or $225,000?
In an article on January 23, 2007, by Jim Bronskill and Joan Bryden, who are the sources, in the Canadian Press entitled, “Justice Department weighed reopening 1997 Airbus settlement with Mulroney”, it says:
In January 2007, Mr. Lavoie acknowledged that the amount Mr. Schreiber paid to Mr. Mulroney was $300,000 when he said that the RCMP informed Mr. Mulroney in the summer of 2000 that they were aware of a $300,000 retainer from Schreiber.
It does go on. But it's clear that you made the representation to these media personnel in January 2007 that it was $300,000.
How do you explain the discrepancy between that and what Mr. Mulroney says of it being only $225,000?