Evidence of meeting #15 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 39th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was schreiber.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
Brian Murphy Liberal Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB
In October and December there were further meetings involving the Prime Minister and the Government of Canada during a period when you were working for Mr. Schreiber. That's our evidence. Your evidence will come from your daytimers.
Liberal
Brian Murphy Liberal Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB
The last two dates were October 2, 1991, and December 1, 1991.
Liberal
Brian Murphy Liberal Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB
There's activity, let's put it this way. You were a registered lobbyist. You were lobbying on behalf of the Bear Head project for Mr. Schreiber. Correct?
Liberal
Brian Murphy Liberal Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB
And you expected some results would come from that?
Liberal
Brian Murphy Liberal Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB
Were you aware that Brian Mulroney, your good friend, had told Mr. Spector, his chief of staff, on December 16, 1990, that because of the cost of the Bear Head project it would be killed. Mr. Mulroney's words were, “It should be killed, it will be killed, it is done”. Were you aware of that at the time?
Liberal
Brian Murphy Liberal Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB
So your good friend Mr. Mulroney did not tell you the Bear Head project was done, dead, in December 1990. You continued to rack up expenses and promises, for your client presumably, that it would live. It seems funny that at the end of it, in 1993 and 1994, Mr. Mulroney received a lot of cash.
Do you find that strange?
Liberal
Brian Murphy Liberal Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB
What did you do for your client in 1991, with all those meetings, if the project was dead anyway?
As an Individual
The client never told me the project was dead, nor did anyone else.
Liberal
Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
Mr. Doucet, can you explain why the mandate that you prepared was not signed by Mr. Schreiber?
As an Individual
That was not the purpose of the mandate. The purpose of the mandate was not to have them signed. As you can see, there was no designated area or blank space intended for a signature.
It was only to memorialize what had been done in the past. There was no intention to have anybody sign it; at least it was not my intention.
Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
But it was really written as a mandate, and not as a memorandum, correct? That is how you wrote it.
Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
Thus, you wrote it with the intention of asking Mr. Schreiber to fill it out and sign it.
