Debbie Singleton was the campaign manager; Gordon Barnes was the official agent for their campaign.
During the campaign itself I was not aware that this had actually taken place. By the time I became the official candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in that election in 2006, we had 20 days left to campaign. Labrador is 112,000 square miles, with 30 or 32 communities. Travel in the middle of winter was important, and I had to get at it right away.
When Mrs. Singleton was contacted by a representative of the Conservative Party of Canada--and this was her first campaign as campaign manager--she was not particularly alarmed. She had faith in the Conservative Party of Canada, that the right thing was being done, and she then directed the representative to contact the official agent.
I became aware of this matter in early April of this year. Mr. Barnes did raise the matter with me following the campaign in 2006 when we were dealing with the Elections Canada return by candidates. The discussion took place dealing with a number of financial items, and I didn't single this particular one out as being of concern or anything else. When the information appeared on CBC television identifying four candidates in our province from the 2006 campaign as being involved in some kind of a financial scam, my radar went up. I became alarmed. I sought legal advice, and as a result I filed an affidavit.