Mr. Chairman, I think you're right, there were about eight questions there, but I think I'll try to answer what I think he's looking for.
The night before the
big rally in Montreal, I was in Montreal. In my car, there were 200 or 300 Canadian flags, not very big, and perhaps 10,000 pins with the Canadian and Quebec flags together, the maple leaf and so on. I don't remember that there was anything else. There were flags, pins and pens, if I remember correctly. I left everything at the Château Champlain. I didn't hand those things over to anyone in particular; I left them in the lobby of the Château Champlain because, if I remember correctly, they used a suite upstairs to coordinate things the next day, for the rally. I can't confirm it, but if I remember correctly, there were people there. I told hotel reception to tell people that the products had arrived.
The next day, the day of the big rally, I went down to Montreal twice during the day, again with promotional items, flags and pins.
Second, was I aware of invoices shared by those organizations? No, not to my knowledge, but I know that expenditures were made and resulted in nothing.