Evidence of meeting #16 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 money.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
Robert Thibault Liberal West Nova, NS
You know who he is. How did you know about Stuart Iddles? Did Mr. Schreiber speak to you about Mr. Iddles, or did you know him through...?
Liberal
As an Individual
Yes. Mr. Iddles had taken over. I believe he was the president or something of Airbus. He was Mr. Pailleret's successor, if I remember correctly.
Liberal
Robert Thibault Liberal West Nova, NS
One of Mr. Schreiber's sub-accounts was know as Stewardess. Are you familiar with it?
Liberal
As an Individual
I never knew that Mr. Schreiber had all those accounts. I found it out when I was questioned by the attorney in Oxford, who showed me the list and asked me whether I drew the same conclusions as he did. I said yes, that that was probably how it worked.
Liberal
Robert Thibault Liberal West Nova, NS
When you went to the banks with Frank Moores, were you dealing with Mr. Moores as an individual or as the president of GCI? What was the relationship between Frank Moores and IAL?
As an Individual
I would say that Frank Moores and Mr. Schreiber were very good friends.
Liberal
Robert Thibault Liberal West Nova, NS
They were very good friends. Was there a business relationship between the company for which you worked, IAL, and Frank Moores' company?
As an Individual
The only direct relationship had to do with helicopters. There were some direct payments from MBB, Messerschmitt, to GCI, and they were deducted from the account, the commissions for IAL.
As an Individual
IAL received commission from MBB. All these commissions were deducted from the direct payment that Messerschmitt, MBB, had made to GCI. There was a monthly fee. How do you say that in French?
As an Individual
Each month, they took $2,000 in fees, or something like that.
As an Individual
I knew that, because they received the amount and transferred half of it to a company in Alberta owned by Mr. Schreiber—Bitucan.
Liberal
Robert Thibault Liberal West Nova, NS
Based on your experience, can you explain why Mr. Alford, who testified before the committee last week and was the president of GCI, could tell us that GCI had no business relationship with Airbus, when there is correspondence signed by Mr. Moores on GCI letterhead and it is addressed to Mr. Strauss?
Liberal
As an Individual
I think so. Mr. Moores had a relationship with Mr. Strauss and with everyone. You know better than I that Mr. Moores was on the Air Canada board of directors for a while.
Liberal
Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
Thank you, Mr. Chair. As you know, Mr. Pelossi, Airbus denied paying commissions to Mr. Schreiber. If I understand correctly, you read the contract between Airbus and IAL, Mr. Schreiber's company. It that correct?
