Concerns were raised both in Parliament and by the media about the payments and the Government's handling of the allegations contained in the March 29, 2007 letter. [...] My analysis of the Terms of Reference for the public inquiry that the Government announced it intended to call led me to the conclusion that one important element of that inquiry -p erhaps the most important element - was to let Canadians hear from their former prime minister about these suspicious dealings with Mr. [...] Mulroney indicated in his testimony before the Ethics Committee, the concern is that the transactions involving the cash payments that created an impression of impropriety could reflect adversely on the high office of prime minister. [...] Moores was the Premier of Newfoundland from 1972 to 1979, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland from 1970 to 1979, a Member of Parliament from 1968 to 1979, and became the principal of GCI in 1985. [...] On April 26,2001, the RCMP received the last of the documents and banking records sought in the 1995 LOR.