Former federal Liberal cabinet minister Marc Lalonde, who was later hired by Karlheinz Schreiber as a lawyer and lobbyist, testified under oath before the Ethics Committee on February 12, 2008 that he had never been hired by Schreiber or GCI to work on the Airbus file.
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What he didn’t tell the Committee:
Lalonde was hired by Airbus in September of 1987 and in November of that year met with Air Canada President and CEO Pierre Jeanniot in order to try to sway him to purchase Airbus. He also didn’t tell the Committee that later the same day he reported that conversation back to GCI.
MacEachern to Schreiber, Doucet, Alford, Ouelette, Moores [PDF 124kb]
Schreiber’s personal day-timer also includes the March 13, 1992 notation, “tel Marc AB-AC” – Telephone Marc about Airbus and Air Canada.
Schreiber's personal daytimer: March 1992 [PDF 625kb]
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