So you admit there was an error. You have said now that in fact there was a second meeting. Once again, you told this committee that you met Mr. Boulay once at a reception. Later you said that you'd met Mr. Boulay to discuss a $5,000 donation. That was a separate meeting that you have confirmed for us before this committee.
Then there's a second contradiction. You told this committee that you never had any formal meetings with the ad agencies. Now we know that you had a very formal meeting with one of the most notorious ad execs, Mr. Boulay, to discuss that donation that I mentioned earlier.
Do you understand why these contradictions are so significant, Mr. Pelletier? You met with agency presidents when you occupied the position of Prime Minister Chrétien's chief of staff, but you tried to deny that those meetings were held in order to conceal the connection between the Prime Minister's Office and the agencies that received dirty money. If you made errors of that significance, Mr. Pelletier, that looks like an attempt to conceal the connection that existed between the Liberal Prime Minister's Office and the agencies that received millions of dollars in dirty money. How can we believe you when you said three contradictory things here and before the Gomery Commission?