TIMELINE: 2007

January 24, 2007

The Globe and Mail reveals justice department pondered setting aside Mulroney settlement in light of the fifth estate revelations.

March 23, 2007

Karlheinz Schreiber files $300,000 lawsuit against Brian Mulroney for failing to provide services he promised in exchange for the $300,000 in cash payments he made 1993 and 1994.

July 5, 2007

Ontario Supreme Court Justice Edward Then rules that former RCMP superintendent Al Mathews acted in good faith when he bestowed confidential informant status on investigative journalist Stevie Cameron, during his investigation of Eurocopter.

July 26, 2007

Lawyers for Karlheinz Schreiber obtain a default ruling against Brian Mulroney. Mulroney is ordered to pay $470,000.

August 3, 2007

Justice Newbold quashes default order obtained by lawyers for Karlheinz Schreiber.

November 8, 2007

Karlheinz Schreiber filed an affidavit alleging he negotiated a $300,000 lobbying deal with Mulroney at the prime minister's Harrington Lake retreat in Quebec on June 23, 1993 — two days before Mulroney stepped down as prime minister. See the affidavit.

November 9, 2007

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he will appoint an independent third party to review new allegations by German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber over his dealings with former prime minister Brian Mulroney.

November 13, 2007

Brian Mulroney addresses a fundraiser in Toronto for his alta mater St. Francis Xavier University. He tells the attendees:

“The half-truth, innuendo and smear are the insidious weapons of the political stalker or defamer. No clear accusations are ever made, just a series of sly suggestions. Hint, hint, nod nod. If only I could tell you the whole story. All from anonymous, dubious sources. And a vendetta surreptiously works its way up to the next plateau. The difficulty with such people in the process, it’s like punching jello in a pool. The only way to confront them, the only way is to confront them. Directly, put them under the spotlight and force them to testify under oath so that their conduct and their motives can be fully analyzed.

It is for this reason that last night I called for a full-fledged Royal Commission of Inquiry into the so-called Airbus affair. This inquiry, its terms of reference, must begin from the beginning in 1988. The conduct of all high elected officials, advisors, lobbyists, public servants, police officials and those few members of the media who played a role in this matter. There can be no exceptions, and there can be no exclusions. I’m very pleased to find that Mr. Harper today agreed to appoint such a commission….So I’m grateful to the Prime Minister for announcing his intention to appoint this royal commission of inquiry and when that commissioner is appointed and these sessions begin, I want to tell you tonight that I Martin Brian Mulroney the 18th Prime Minister of Canada will be there before the Royal Commission with bells on because I’ve done nothing wrong and I have absolutely nothing to hide.”

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November 14, 2007

Prime Minister Stephen Harper named David Johnston, president of the University of Waterloo to draft the terms of reference for the public inquiry into the Schreiber affair.

November 15, 2007

Karlheinz Schreiber lost the latest round of his battle against extradition when the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed his application for a review. His lawyers, Eddie and Brian Greenspan, asked the federal government to give them two weeks to ask a court to halt Schreiber’s surrender.

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