Second report of the independent advisor into the allegations respecting financial dealings between Mr. Karlheinz Schreiber and the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney : Deuxième rapport du conseiller indépendant concernant les allégations au sujet des transactions financières entre M. Karlheinz Schreiber et le très honorable Brian Mulroney

Brian Mulroney made by Karlheinz Schreiber and, in particular, the handling of allegations by the present and past government including the circulation of relevant correspondence in the Privy Council Office and Prime Minister’s Office; that Karlheinz Schreiber be called to be a witness before the committee without delay; and that the committee report to the House its findings, conclusions and reco [...] On February 28, 2008, the Committee issued a one-page report advising that it had agreed to the recommendation “[t]hat the Government immediately initiate a formal public inquiry into the Mulroney - Schreiber affair.”2 In making my recommendations in the first report concerning the appropriate mandate of a public inquiry, I took into account the evidence that had been given before the Committee by [...] Allan Rock, the Minister of Justice at the time the settlement was reached, testified before the Ethics Committee that the settlement had been motivated by the revelation that a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had disclosed to a third party that Mr. [...] Rock’s testimony appears to confirm, the settlement was fundamentally an acknowledgement by the Government and the RCMP that the letter of request sent to the Swiss authorities incorrectly stated that the RCMP had concluded that Mr. [...] Rock’s testimony suggests a possible further consequence of the lack of disclosure of the cash payments – had the payments become public knowledge at that time and their rationale explained and evaluated, there might not have been a basis for the public inquiry under consideration now – it does not lead to the conclusion that for an inquiry to delve into the merits of the settlement would be in th