The only question I have, Mr. Chairman, is....
Mr. Pelletier, you seem to have a completely segmented situation: you met with Mr. Boulay at a reception, you never talked to him about the sponsorship scandal, you didn't bring that up here because the $5,000 cheque was a different issue.
But we noted during the investigation that there was an interplay between money given on payments by the Government of Canada under the sponsorship program and donations back to the Liberal Party. Therefore, your clear distinction between one transaction that had nothing to do with the sponsorship scandal and the other one, which was the $5,000 donation to the Liberal Party, leaves me at some odds. I cannot understand why the Privy Council Office would even know about it, know which bank account it came out of, why they would be informing you about it, because this is an Elections Canada issue, not a PCO or a PMO issue.
Perhaps you can give us some background as to why the PCO informed you about a $5,000 cheque. I think it's quite relevant, Mr. Pelletier, because we did find a correlation between the sponsorship scandal and donations to the Liberal Party.