Evidence of meeting #17 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
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Thank you kindly.
Very quickly, Mrs. Cameron, are you familiar at all with Pierre Jeanniot?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
He was the president and CEO of Air Canada between 1984 and 1990.
Do you know where he is now?
As an Individual
I tried very hard to find him in those years that I was working on this book, and at that time we thought he was maybe in France. We'd heard he might be in the south of France someplace, but—
As an Individual
No, I didn't hear he was in Toulouse. But I was able to talk to Claude Taylor, and I wasn't able to speak to Mr. Jeanniot.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
As the chair, I often get tidbits from people across the country, and it did come in that it was Toulouse, France, which happens to be where Airbus aircraft are manufactured.
When you found out that 13 of the 15 members of the board of directors of Air Canada were replaced by Mr. Mulroney, did that cause you any concern?
As an Individual
I reported on it at the time. I think I was working for the Ottawa Citizen at that time, and I reported on that story.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
We could pursue this, but I think it would take much more time than we have.
I want to thank you on behalf of the committee. I know, just since we've started, I have some 10,000 pages of documents that have been provided to me. I'm sure you have boxes and boxes of documents.
It's a complicated issue. It's multi-dimensional. It makes it hard to sleep, too, I'm sure, because it sure does for me.
I want to thank you for appearing and thank you for giving us the foundation on which we are trying to do our work and trying to provide the best information possible within the resources and the tools that we have, so that the next stage, whatever that might be, will be the final chapter of this book.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Thank you kindly. You're excused.
Colleagues, I'm going to suspend for five minutes.
The committee is going to go in camera, so we must clear the room.
Thank you.
[Proceedings continue in camera]
