Mr. Speaker, let me withdraw that remark and say that the minister is fabricating facts to suit himself.
The Prime Minister claims he received $40,000 in 1997 as partial payment for the alleged sale of his golf club shares. The RCMP inspected the books of the Prime Minister's private company and found no record of that payment, but a senior official in the Prime Minister's Office phoned the National Post to say the money in question did come in.
If the money went to the Prime Minister's private company, why could the RCMP find no record?