Mr. Speaker, we have a confidential 1994 memo by the Prime Minister's assistant, Terrie O'Leary, that Groupe Everest should do the ads for Canada savings bonds. That comes from, “myself and the minister”. Today another memo to another assistant, Karl Littler, again about Everest doing CSB ads. It says, “We have discussed this initiative with the minister”. The Everest contract broke the rules. It was retroactive. It paid commission for no work.
How can the Prime Minister plead innocence when his own senior staff say he was directly involved?