Terry Kilrea, Larry O'Brien's opponent in the 2006 municipal election, testifies for the second day Tuesday in the mayor's criminal trial. (Francois Leclerc/CBC)

Back in the witness box in an Ottawa court on Tuesday for a second day of testimony in the influence peddling trial of Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien, Terry Kilrea was asked about inconsistencies in his story.

O'Brien's lawyer, Michael Edelson, continued his cross-examination of the former mayoral candidate saying there were problems with dates in Kilrea's account of events.

In testimony on Monday, Kilrea described clandestine meetings with O'Brien during the 2006 campaign for the Ottawa municipal election. During those meetings, Kilrea alleges an offer was made to pay his campaign expenses and to help him secure an appointment with the National Parole Board in exchange for dropping out of the mayoral race.

On Tuesday, Edelson said Kilrea knew that he had the dates of some of those meetings wrong when he swore his affidavit.

Larry O'Brien's lead lawyer, Michael Edelson, challenged Terry Kilrea's account of his meetings with O'Brien during his cross-examination on Tuesday. (Francois Leclerc/CBC)

He also told Kilrea that he hadn't told anyone there was a problem with the dates until he met with the Crown and Ontario Provincial Police investigators a few months ago.

In Kilrea's affidavit, he had said that the first meeting he had with O'Brien happened on July 5, 2006, but later said that meeting had happened on July 12.

Kilrea's allegations that he was offered an enticement to quit the campaign spurred a police investigation, which resulted in influence-peddling charges being laid against O'Brien under the Criminal Code.

O'Brien has pleaded not guilty to both charges.

A conviction for each charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

Kilrea first testified on Monday with Crown prosecutor Scott Hutchison asking about his ties to federal Transport Minister John Baird, the member of Parliament for Ottawa-West Nepean, and about the meetings he says he had with O'Brien in 2006.

Kilrea said that O'Brien called him on his cellphone in early July 2006 and that they met face to face at a restaurant patio near O'Brien's Sussex Drive condo on July 12.

Kilrea testified that O'Brien said he'd been doing polling, and had decided that Kilrea represented "a problem."

A number of high-profile witnesses were expected to testify at the influence-peddling trial of Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien. (Francois Leclerc/CBC)

That problem, Kilrea told the court, concerned some "very prominent Conservatives" who were backing O'Brien's bid for mayor.

O'Brien said, according to Kilrea, that those Conservatives wanted the two men to come to a "business agreement" that would leave only one of them in the race so the right-of-centre vote wouldn't be split.

The second meeting between O'Brien and Kilrea happened behind a doughnut shop, the court heard.

Kilrea said that's when he turned down O'Brien's offer, even though he pulled out of the race a couple of weeks later.