Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have just a very brief response. I will make it relevant to what we're talking about, by answering what the motion calls for, Mr. Chair: to recall Brian Mulroney to appear before the committee to answer supplementary questions and provide details in relation to the fifth report.
My view is that I am not supporting this because there is no need for supplementary questions, given the testimony that we have already heard.
So I am not reading the phone book, as you indicated, but I am actually reading and taking excerpts out of the minutes of this committee that were part of the report back to the House of Commons.
I think I'm completely in order in questioning whether supplementary questions are needed, and I am using for evidence--for lack of a better word--in my position on this what we have already discussed or debated and the questions already asked, and I'm asking why we need supplementary questions.
So thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to respond to that.
The Right Hoourable Brian Mulroney did come here. It was on December 13, and he did have an opening statement. In his opening statement he said:
My second-biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber for a mandate he gave me after I left office. I will tell you today how that came about.
My first point here is that I don't know what the supplementary question could be, based on the fact that in the first part of his opening statement he admits that it was a mistake. Are you going to ask him again if it was a mistake? I think he clearly answered that question, Mr. Chair.