Mulroney in hot seat over selective answers

OTTAWA - Brian Mulroney is in the hot seat over why, if secret payments he received from Karlheinz Schreiber were legitimate, he didn't disclose them during questioning 13 years ago.

The former prime minister's selective answers in a deposition for his 1996 Airbus libel suit prompted questions Thursday at the public inquiry looking into his dealings with the German-Canadian businessman.

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Justice Jeffrey Oliphant, who leads the inquiry, also seized on the issue of Mulroney's selective answers. He wondered about Mulroney's recollection during the 1996 deposition of meeting Schreiber for a coffee in Montreal after leaving office.

Mulroney volunteered at the time that Schreiber had retained former Liberal cabinet minister Marc Lalonde to help promote the building of an arms plant in east Montreal. But he didn't mention his own business relationship with Schreiber, who gave him at least $75,000 in cash during that meeting.

"Here you volunteer without having been asked that Mr. Schreiber had retained Mr. Lalonde ... you didn't say anything about your retainer," Oliphant said.

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LOL, this certainly reminded me of his well deserved nickname: Lyin' Brian!

My reading of Kady's liveblogging tells me that Mulroney is definitely looking like the crook he is. But, I also am quite sure that the powers that be will pull back, and go easy on him.

and couldn't find it but they did have links to his earlier testimony and I listened to him and it was, indeed, pathetic and he was, as always, the 'victim' in all this.

with crocodile tears as well.

characteristic of a conservative, is that they will NEVER admit they were wrong, except by fruedian slip of course, keep peppering him with questions, and he'll eventually slip up.