Information & Ethics committee  We could have fun making assumptions, you and I, but, frankly, very honestly, I don't know who was at the origin of the leak. Neither that one nor any of the others, but I have doubts about some of those leaks.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have the slightest idea.

Information & Ethics committee  None.

Information & Ethics committee  Let's say that Stevie Cameron played a fairly curious role: she was both journalist and police informer and had a code attached to her name, and everything. And, as if by chance, one of the calls that I received was from Stevie Cameron.

Information & Ethics committee  It was she who was at the origin of the letter.

Information & Ethics committee  The RCMP officer with whom she was working was Fraser Fiegenwald, who did write the letter.

Information & Ethics committee  No, it was translated into German?

Information & Ethics committee  It was first written in English.

Information & Ethics committee  I know we have to brief. I would say, in answer to your question, that there were two periods. The period from 1995 until the settlement was reached in 1997 was a period when it was my work to speak on Mr. Mulroney's behalf. I earned my living as a public relations consultant, and Mr.

Information & Ethics committee  I was never told the contrary, by the way.

Information & Ethics committee  I didn't have to ask him that because he gave me the answer before I asked the question.

Information & Ethics committee  He had paid his taxes.

Information & Ethics committee  He had paid his taxes on what I had just been told. He had a retainer of tens of thousands of dollars in three cash payments, and the taxes had been paid. That's what was communicated to me.

Information & Ethics committee  That's right.

Information & Ethics committee  The Agence France-Presse.