Evidence of meeting #5 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was schreiber.
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Conservative
Russ Hiebert Conservative South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, BC
Well, let's start with whether he asked you directly.
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Conservative
Russ Hiebert Conservative South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, BC
Did somebody else ask you on his behalf?
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Conservative
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Conservative
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Conservative
Russ Hiebert Conservative South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, BC
Why can you not tell us who asked you to prepare a statement indicating that Mr. Mulroney never received money from you?
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As an Individual
This is correspondence with lawyers he had, or his lawyers had, so I am not prepared to answer that.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Mr. Hiebert, I regret your time has expired.
There is a point of order.
Could you please state the nature of your point of order before you get into your description?
November 29th, 2007 / 12:40 p.m.
Liberal
Robert Thibault Liberal West Nova, NS
Yes; it's on the production of documents, and I will be quite quick.
Mr. Schreiber, when he made his opening statement, quoted from a document. He was reading from a document. I would respectfully request that the document be tabled at the end of the meeting to form part of the record.
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Liberal
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Mr. Schreiber, in your opening statement you were quoting and reading from letters you had before you, and from a statement. The members have asked if we could have a copy of that for circulation to them so that they would be able to be sure they understood what you said. Would that be all right?
Most of it's read into the record anyway. Members have been scribbling down. I think--
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As an Individual
But this is a letter from Mr. Greenspan. I think we should adjourn, then, and I have to speak to him about it.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Normal practice in Parliament is that when a party quotes from a document, there can be a request--and sometimes it's mandatory--that they table that document so that the context in which it is made is understood.
The member has formally asked, and I am asking on behalf of all members, that the document you read from as part of your opening statement be provided to the committee now. Is that all right?
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As an Individual
I'm not quite clear, Mr. Chairman, whether I have to speak to Mr. Greenspan about it. It is his note to me.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
In your opening statement, are you telling me that the quotations you referred to are in your document and they are extracts from a letter? Or do you have in front of you the letter from Mr. Greenspan and you were just reading parts of it into the record? Which is it?
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As an Individual
No, it was done with Mr. Greenspan and myself to make sure that I get it out right.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
So you read the whole thing into the record, all of what's in front of you?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
So it's not a secret. It's already out. Will you table that document with the committee? Yes or no. We'd like to have a copy of it.
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As an Individual
As I said, I would like to speak to Mr. Greenspan about it, but I have no problems with it.