It's the first time that... I became aware—I think the date is here—in late March or early April of 2008 that a news report was carried in our province dealing with what they referred to as the “money in, money out”. But I also explained earlier—I don't think you were present, sir, when I made the explanation—that during the process of filing the election return undertaken after the election, my official agent, Mr. Barnes, brought to my attention a number of amounts of money that could not be claimed during or in the election return. One of those items was this amount. It was not singled out as anything dealing with “money in, money out”. We hadn't heard the term at that time, but we were told by Elections Canada that we could not claim that particular amount.
On August 11th, 2008. See this statement in context.