Mr. Speaker, perhaps I will have to refresh the Prime Minister's memory. On January 28, 1999, the Prime Minister's ethics counsellor wrote a memo in which he said: “In January 1996, he (the Prime Minister) informed the Ethics Counsellor that he had not been paid” for his shares in the golf course “and wanted to know what his options were. He was told that the Code permitted him to resume ownership or if he wished, he could of course, sell these shares”.
Clearly the Prime Minister was told by the ethics counsellor that he still owned these shares in the golf course. This is exactly the kind of question a conflict of interest raises. When will this be cleared up for Canadians?