No, I personally did not talk to anybody in any senior position about the business arrangement, but Barbro did that through her channels back to HQ.
I certainly wouldn't have participated in any kind of transaction until I felt comfortable about its true nature and understood it thoroughly. I expressed this also to Rom Cimaroli, who was our campaign manager, and Rom ended up receiving an e-mail, which Elections Canada has a copy of, from Suzanne.... The name just slips from me; she sits as a director on national council. She explained the mechanics fully. Suzanne I knew very well from previous campaigns and I trusted her. She laid out in black and white how it actually worked. Therefore, we were satisfied that what was happening here was all on the up-and-up.