Mr. Speaker, the problem is that the Prime Minister told us that he sold his shares in 1993. However, he had not yet been paid in 1996, and in 1999 he was negotiating. If someone is selling something and has not been paid, the sale has not been completed.
If he had made the deed of sale public, things would be a little clearer. I hope that he is going to do some explaining to the House because, according to the ethics counsellor himself, the Prime Minister, who had not been paid in 1996, was still looking at his options in the matter.
Is there not a direct link between the Prime Minister wondering about his options and the lobbying of the president of the Business Development Bank of Canada?