Thank you again, Chair.
The point I was trying to make is that there have been continued attempts, primarily by the Liberal Party, to create a scandal where none exists. I was pointing out the most recent example prior to this, the Mulroney-Schreiber inquiry by the ethics committee. When they brought Mr. Goodale in to ask the question directly of Mr. Schreiber--have you had any communication at any time with Prime Minister Harper or his office?--he said no. Here it was, the big moment when they're supposed to have the one piece of evidence that would link Mr. Schreiber and Prime Minister Harper's office, and of course the answer was no.
It struck me as very amusing, because Mr. Goodale, of course, in his past lives, has been a lawyer. I always thought this was one of the tenets, that any young law student, during his time in law school, was coached and instructed and advised never to ask a question to which he didn't know the answer. Yet here it was, the whole argument of the Liberal Party hanging on this one question, and the answer was a resounding no.
Since then, we've seen absolutely no attempts by the Liberal Party to try to link Mr. Harper, because there was no link to the Mulroney-Schreiber affair.