Information & Ethics committee  During my time, no one had access to the Prime Minister's Office the way he did.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't know.

Information & Ethics committee  From the PC Canada Fund.

Information & Ethics committee  You will see in these documents information related to your question. I do not think it matches Ms. Cameron's version, but you will see that for yourself.

Information & Ethics committee  I always had the impression that Mr. Mulroney had one eye on his life after politics and that he was courting people who had power and money.

Information & Ethics committee  He had his own firm.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I was out of the country, and when I came back—I think it was probably in The Globe and Mail, because it has the most comprehensive coverage in the country—I saw this article saying that Mr. Lalonde and Mr. MacKay had posted bond for Mr. Schreiber. So it must have been around 1997 or 1998.

Information & Ethics committee  He never raised that with me. He was not quite that aggressive. When I dealt with him—and what offended me most about dealing with him was that he was basically engaged in a process of character assassination of public servants—he was alleging that his difficulties with this project were as a result of certain officials being in the pockets of General Motors, who were the supplier of LAVs to the Canadian military.

Information & Ethics committee  I would ask you to ask yourselves that. You're the ones who have invited an ex-chef to appear at these hearings; you're the ones who seem to be intrigued by that story. I'm coming here, and I was invited principally, to talk about the Bear Head arrangement. But I think that as a citizen of Canada I have a responsibility to provide information that I think can help you out, and I'm telling you not to get diverted by these wild goose chases.

Information & Ethics committee  I wrote about this in the afterword, and you invited me to appear here. I wrote about this in the—

Information & Ethics committee  On the Bear Head project itself?

Information & Ethics committee  Well, I have new information that I learned subsequently; for example, that it didn't die. When I left the Prime Minister's Office I thought it was dead. I was very surprised when I came back from the Middle East to find out not only that it wasn't dead, but that Marc Lalonde had been involved in it in some way.

Information & Ethics committee  To save you time, it's all in the statement I gave them, which should be available to your committee. It was a sworn statement; it was signed. The statement was referred to in the letter that went to the Swiss government. So it's all there, and I wouldn't change a word that I said, particularly because it's 13 years later, and I'm sure my memory was better back then than it is—

Information & Ethics committee  No, I haven't.