Staff briefed Bernier to discuss wireless issue with Mulroney

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OTTAWA — When the Conservatives were asked last fall if government ministers met with Brian Mulroney about the big-money auction of wireless-telephone airwaves, the Tories dismissed the questions as “ridiculous,” “nonsense” and “hogwash.”

Yet government documents show that cabinet minister Maxime Bernier was scheduled by his staff to do just that in November of 2006, with a meeting set at Montreal's University Club that was expected to include talk about telecommunications issues that concerned Mr. Mulroney's employer, Quebecor Inc.
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But Mr. Bernier and Mr. Mulroney got together for supper in the spring of 2007 and discussed only personal matters, said Mr. Mulroney's spokesman, Robin Sears.

However, that meeting, when Mr. Bernier was still industry minister and responsible for telecommunications, was the kind of get-together Mr. Mulroney said he did not recall last December when he told a Commons committee that he had supped with Mr. Bernier after he was shuffled to the Foreign Affairs portfolio.

“I have no recollection of having met him when he was industry minister,” Mr. Mulroney testified.
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One more thing Mulroney lied about to the ethics committee. Since the meeting was only six months previous, his memory lapse is not so easy to explain away.