Dion Accuses Harper's Team Of Sitting On Mulroney Allegations For 7 Months

But as The Globe and Mail reported Saturday, Mr. Schreiber sent Mr. Harper's office letters in March of 2007 containing the allegation that Mr. Mulroney discussed a financial agreement with the German-Canadian at the former prime minister's summer residence two days before his official resignation. “There is a cover-up somewhere,” Mr. Dion said. “The Prime Minister has a lot to explain. What did he know? When did he know it?” The Prime Minister's Office said Mr. Harper never got the correspondence because it was received by the Privy Council Office – its bureaucratic arm – and was not forwarded to Mr. Harper. “Even if it had been, it is unlikely Prime Minister Harper would have seen it,” PMO spokeswoman Sandra Buckler said in an e-mail sent late Friday night. In an e-mail Sunday, she added that the Privy Council also never communicated the details of that correspondence to Mr. Harper verbally, saying the first he learned of these accusations was when they were filed in court. “The Prime Minister was clear – he acted when he learned about the new allegations contained in the sworn affidavit. He did not know about the new allegations previously,” Ms. Buckler said. Mr. Dion, Official Opposition Leader, said it strained credulity to accept that the Privy Council Office did not relay the allegations it received in the March, 2007, correspondence from Mr. Schreiber. “[That] the Privy Council did not give such information that is so serious to the Prime Minister's Office … is very difficult to believe,” Mr. Dion told CTV's Question Period. “We need to know exactly what happened. We are speaking about something that in a democracy should not happen – the possibility of a former prime minister receiving cash money from obscure services given by a business person who is in trouble with the justice system.” Sunday, Mr. Schreiber also questioned what happened. “How could it be your [Harper's] people wouldn't show it to you when you have the political dynamite like this?” Mr. Schreiber said in an interview from the Toronto West Detention Centre, where he is awaiting a hearing on a bid by Germany to extradite him over charges of fraud, bribery and tax evasion. “The question is … Did Harper see it or was it hidden from him?” ... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071112.wmulroney12/BNStory/National/

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