Thank you very much. I will be sharing my time with Mr. Ménard.
We can see that you made a great deal of money with the Conservatives, Mr. Schreiber. In 1988, you got a 1.8-billion-dollar contract for your client, Airbus. You received a commission of 2%, or approximately $20 million U.S. The figure $36 million has been mentioned, but let us agree that it was just $20 million. In 1987-1988, your company, IAL was paid $3.9 million Canadian by Thyssen, for a contract for the building of a light armoured vehicle plant in Nova Scotia. In June 1986, the Canadian Coast Guard purchased helicopters at a cost of some $26 million. IAL, the company you controlled, got $888,000 for this, and GCI got $350,000. Let us round that off to about a million dollars. You and your company received about or perhaps a minimum of $25 million in commissions thanks to your friend, or rather your former friend, the former Conservative prime minister, Brian Mulroney. You received all this in less than four years.
You made secret cash payments in the amount of $300,000 to Brian Mulroney in various hotels. The amount, the mandatary and the mandates are not clear. The story is full of incongruities. All the witnesses we have heard from highlighted the incongruities, the inconsistencies, the major contradictions and a few tricks along the way.
How can we not think that the $300,000 you paid to Brian Mulroney was not part of the $25 million in commissions you received yourself?