Thank you, Mr. Chairman, because this is the basis of everything you are asking, and I can satisfy the honourable member over there. I told you of the three projects—Airbus, Thyssen Bear Head, and the helicopters—and this is the last one I have to show. So I hope you are satisfied, sir.
Now I would like to turn to another thing to get this out of my hair. Last time, you saw that I was really surprised when you read the figures of all the donations that I or my companies gave to Canadian parties. I have to tell you again that I had not the smallest clue what you were talking about. When I then saw this press article, I somehow got an understanding of what it was, because you talk about, for example, my company, Thyssen Bear Head Industries.
Let me tell you that the secretary of that company is Monsieur Edmond Chiasson, a Liberal. He is a lawyer. He was with the Doucets in Halifax. His wife was the campaign manager for Mr. Chrétien in Nova Scotia. And he had these shares from Bear Head Industries, because I had this only in trust for Thyssen.
So in the normal administrative business, I was not involved. I had meetings.
We have a key witness for all this, Mr. Greg Alford. He's in Toronto today. Mr. Greg Alford was a senior vice-president, and he handled all the donations, fundraising dinners, and whatever it was. I know that in the meantime he had cut the cheque for the Liberals in 1993 in the amount of $10,000 from Thyssen Bear Head Industries—just to make that correction.
Mr. Alford is a very interesting person. He used to be vice-president and, for a while, president of GCI—Frank Moores—and Mr. Moores was more or less like his godfather, because Mr. Alford's father passed away and Mr. Moores had some property dealings with him in Chaffeys Locks. But Mr. Alford later on was also the gentleman who incorporated Spaghettissimo North America Inc., which is a pasta company. Later on, he became the president of Reto's Restaurant Systems International Inc. In other words, Mr. Alford can really answer a lot of questions for the committee from GCI, Bear Head Industries, Spaghettissimo, and Reto's. He can tell you, for example, exactly who was involved in the pasta business and who was not.
But now, since I looked at this, I found something else very remarkable, and I thought this looked so familiar to me, that it is in Germany. In Germany I had to hand over, under this Saudi program, $1 million to the treasurer of the Christlich-Soziale Union, and to my great surprise when this all came up one day, this $1 million had disappeared. So the chartered accountant and a couple of other people just stole the money.
The same happened with another donation, to Dr. Schäuble, who is now the minister of interior affairs. The money has simply disappeared.
So why am I saying this? There is money missing. In 1993, $30,000 that I donated to the Progressive Conservative Party...it's not on your own list, and it's not on this list. I gave it in cash to the brother of Mr. Jean Charest for his leadership convention.
So far—