Information & Ethics Committee on Nov. 29th, 2007

[Carole Lavallée, Bloc, Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC]

Mr. Chairman, we need unanimous consent for this document to be tabled.

At the beginning of the week, I provided a motion that we will, I hope, be able to discuss before we leave. By virtue of this motion, the documents pertaining to the Mulroney-Schreiber affair would be distributed as they arrive, and the translation would be provided to us as quickly as possible.

I will be consistent and immediately give my consent in order for this document to be distributed and for us to be provided with the translation as quickly as possible.

[The Chair, Liberal, Paul Szabo]

I have no more speakers. I'm going to rule on this.

The initial group of documents provided to the committee are only in English. To be distributed to the members, the normal practice is that they would have to be translated before distribution.

Mr. Dhaliwal has another copy, of the same document I understand, and it's also only in English. He would like Mr. Schreiber to have a copy of that now so he may respond to the question that Mr. Dhaliwal has asked. The only way we can do that is to get the unanimous consent of the committee to distribute the documents and to undertake to translate and distribute them in French as soon as possible.

Mr. Thibault.

[Robert Thibault, Liberal, West Nova, NS]

Mr. Chair, I seek unanimous consent that the documents be distributed now, in English, and that they be translated at a later date.

[The Chair, Liberal, Paul Szabo]

I have a motion before us.

Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt that motion?

(Motion agreed to)

[The Chair, Liberal, Paul Szabo]

Please circulate the documents and provide that to Mr. Schreiber.

Mr. Dhaliwal, you have one and a half minutes to go.

[Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal, Newton—North Delta, BC]

Mr. Schreiber, in the March 29, 2007 letter you suggest that Mr. Harper's government appears to be involved in a cover-up and is targeting you. And you say on page two, “Delay the Schreiber lawsuit...put him in jail or extradite him to Germany. Shut him up.”

Can you confirm that?

[Karlheinz Schreiber]

Sir, excuse me, do you refer to a letter in this package?

[Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal, Newton—North Delta, BC]

Yes.

[Karlheinz Schreiber]

Because I didn't know what it is, I just wanted to see it. Which letter?

[Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal, Newton—North Delta, BC]

It's a March 29, 2007 letter.

[The Chair, Liberal, Paul Szabo]

Mr. Dhaliwal, he's on the correct page; just direct him to the paragraph he should look at.

[Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal, Newton—North Delta, BC]

It's on page two.

[Karlheinz Schreiber]

Here we come to something very simple, sir. This letter was sent out by my lawyer on my behalf to several people, and whatever you see here is correct.

[Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal, Newton—North Delta, BC]

It's correct? Okay.

Mr. Schreiber, can you confirm that your September 26, 2007 letter to the Prime Minister, Mr. Harper, also included the information about a June 23, 1993 meeting, and at page 5 says, “My suspicion is that for personal and political reasons you became part of the illegal activities against me and the cover-up...”?

[Karlheinz Schreiber]

Absolutely.

[The Chair, Liberal, Paul Szabo]

Thank you.

Mr. Tilson, you may have five minutes.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

Mr. Chairman, because of the way the questions have been going and because the answers that have been given are non-answers, the government will not be asking any further questions at this time. We will wait until the next session, so that Mr. Schreiber can properly inform himself, so that we can have proper answers to our questions.

[The Chair, Liberal, Paul Szabo]

Thank you kindly.

Mr. Asselin, you have five minutes.

[Gérard Asselin, Bloc, Manicouagan, QC]

My question is for you, Mr. Schreiber. Is it true that you are a great friend of Mr. Mulroney?

[Karlheinz Schreiber]

No.

[Gérard Asselin, Bloc, Manicouagan, QC]

You are not a friend of Mr. Mulroney?

[Karlheinz Schreiber]

No.

[Gérard Asselin, Bloc, Manicouagan, QC]

You did however help Mr. Mulroney get elected during the 1984 election campaign.

[Karlheinz Schreiber]

Yes.

[Gérard Asselin, Bloc, Manicouagan, QC]

You are aware that in order to get Mr. Mulroney elected during the 1984 election campaign, you had to bring to the leadership convention delegates who were against Joe Clark and who were Mulroney supporters. You are aware that there had to be a lot of pro-Mulroney delegates.