Information & Ethics committee  Not one.

Information & Ethics committee  That's odd. For Elections Canada to call me, someone must have done something. I don't think that Elections Canada would take the trouble of bothering me for nothing. To begin with, during my campaign, there were only three of us, and I repeat that my expenses only totalled $1,000.

Information & Ethics committee  I never saw anything else. My adversaries here perhaps cooked everything up. After the 2006 election—

Information & Ethics committee  After the election, in the summer of 2006, meetings were held. The curious thing is that the media were saying that all the other parties were having trouble except the Conservative Party, which had a surplus of between 3 and $5 million. That is why Mr. Harper was always in election mode, as he said.

Information & Ethics committee  I found that bizarre. They always claimed that they had money and were ready for an election. It was only afterwards, when Elections Canada spoke to me about the campaign company... I had no idea.

Information & Ethics committee  Precisely.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  Halfway through the campaign, Mr. Benoît Larocque called me to tell me that the party wanted to deposit $14,000 in our campaign account. I asked him what was involved. He told me that there was nothing to worry about because he had asked nine other committees the same thing and they had all accepted.

Information & Ethics committee  No one. The only thing that Mr. Benoît Larocque told me at the time was that no explanation was needed, that it was trivial.

Information & Ethics committee  Precisely.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  That's right, in less than 24 hours, sir.

Information & Ethics committee  At no time, sir.

Information & Ethics committee  As Mr. Larocque said at the time, it was simply an in-and-out, without any explanation.

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly.