Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Ménard, that was a very comprehensive and good question, and I don't want you to take from my testimony that I am recommending or sponsoring this type of conduct that has concerned the committee. I wish I could speak la belle langue française, but isn't there a French prove

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Ménard, you're absolutely correct. If Mr. Mulroney had consulted me, I certainly would have--as I know you would have--advised him not to take this course of conduct.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Dhaliwal, I would like to help you on this, but I don't think I was aware of it. I think Mr. Spector made the point that this project was the project that wouldn't die. It kept coming up and coming up again, because Mr. Schreiber, a very forceful and articulate person, believ

Information & Ethics committee  At some point in time, Mr. Dhaliwal, that may have been mentioned to me. But you know, we're playing a game of political archeology here. That was a long, long time ago, and I can't give you an honest answer. I wouldn't be surprised that at some point the Prime Minister said to m

Information & Ethics committee  To the best of my recollection, that is correct.

Information & Ethics committee  Not really. I think it was some time...I don't know, a week, two weeks, three weeks after I sent him that draft memo. But I don't know that for sure. I suppose there would be a date on the letter.

Information & Ethics committee  I have so many calls from Mr. Mulroney and Mr. Schreiber--and I'm telling you this to the best of my recollection--my mind is bent. I don't remember specifically what was said in any conversation. My answer to you is, I do not recall.

Information & Ethics committee  The only time I had the pleasure of meeting the current Prime Minister was at a picnic a long time ago down in Nova Scotia. I have never had any discussions with him about anything substantive.

Information & Ethics committee  That's exactly what I'm telling you. As my wife said at the time, I don't know who was more surprised: she and I, or Mr. Mulroney and Mr. Doucet. Now, maybe Mr. Schreiber set this up as a nice little surprise. I don't know. Maybe Mr. Doucet and Mr. Mulroney knew we were going to

Information & Ethics committee  That was way back in 1994, I believe. If that's the case, no, I certainly had no idea.

Information & Ethics committee  I guess about the same time as everybody else did.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, that's correct. What I did--and I did it to help Mr. Schreiber--is I very tentatively approached a few businesspeople in Atlantic Canada, such as the late Harrison McCain, and said, “Mr. McCain, there's a food fair on in Octoberfest. If you have any people there, maybe you w

Information & Ethics committee  I think so.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sure I probably will. I don't want to personalize it with Mr. Szabo, but he made me very angry. I'm interested in your polemics and your assertions of all these kickbacks and bribes and terrible conduct by our administration--

Information & Ethics committee  It's a pleasure.