Mr. Speaker, the money owing was paid because the hotel received grants. That is the fact of the matter.
The annual reports of company 161341 Inc. do not list Jonas Prince, the individual to whom the Prime Minister says he sold his shares, among the shareholders in 1993 or in 1996, when the Prime Minister intervened in the negotiations.
Since Jonas Prince was not a shareholder, not having bought the shares, will the Prime Minister admit that his entire defence has just fallen apart and that there is indeed an appearance of conflict of interest between the money owing him and his effort to arrange matters so that the situation would allow him—