Good afternoon, Mr. Ménard. Thank you for accepting our invitation to appear before the committee to shed light on this whole episode.
To begin with, Mr. Ménard, in your opening comments, you stated that you had refused the money and that, as far as you were concerned, that was the end of it because there had been no violation of the law.
I believe you were a law professor at one point, and you were also a criminal lawyer. Perhaps you could explain why there was no violation, neither under the criminal law or under the Election Act.