Relationship Between Brian Mulroney And Karlheinz Schreiber

Brian Mulroney and Karlheinz Schreiber’s professional relationship was far from peripheral. Dating back to 1974, Mulroney and Schreiber have been friends, associates and eventually business partners. Initially, Montreal lawyer and former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney impressed Schreiber at the Progressive Conservative leadership convention in Ottawa. Thereafter, Schreiber infused about $30,000 into Mulroney’s Tory campaign only to be defeated by rival PC leader Joe Clark. Their affiliation did not perish however. Geoff Stevens explains in his timeline of the Airbus Affair that Schreiber paid for Conservative delegates whom opposed Clark to attend the Tory National Convention in Winnipeg. Coincidentally, at this convention, Clark failed to
Was he that precarious as to who would be the best leader for Canada? Considering he was already a wealthy German businessman, I believe he had alternative interests. For instance, Schreiber’s company, International Aircraft Leasing had signed a sequestered contract that stipulated German aircraft producer, Messerschmitt Bolkow-Blohm would sell aircrafts to the government of Canada. It is not surprising that Mulroney reconfigured the entire Air Canada Board of Directors and the contract to purchase new aircrafts for the Coast Guard was given to Messerschmitt Bolkow-Blohm. As Geoff Stevens mentions, Schreiber was entitled to a commission for every sales transaction. This situation seems to exclude Mulroney, right? Wrong.

On June 23, 1993 the professional relationship between Mulroney and Schreiber seemed to escalade into a scandal. Geoff Stevens describes a situation in which Mulroney’s limousine transports Schreiber to the prime minister's seasonal haven at Harrington Lake, Quebec. The men discuss dealings whereby Schreiber will provide Mulroney $300,000 at three separate meetings. The transactions will be exercised in envelopes at hotels in Montreal and New York over the next two years. A slew of coded Swiss bank accounts and sub-accounts began to be discovered and the longest running scandal in Canadian history began to
He issued University of Waterloo President David Johnston to draft the terms of position for the civic analysis. In Johnston’s report, he clearly identifies that Mulroney was in the wrong and inappropriate conduct did occur. However, he concludes that it would be unfair speculation to rule Mulroney guilty by association. No charges were laid on Mulroney whereas Schreiber was deported to Germany and sentenced to 8 years in prison for tax evasion. Not long after, Harper appointed David Johnston as Governor General of Canada. These facts leave unanswered questions to me. How was Mulroney excluded from penal sanctions? Could it be possible that Harper did not want to shine a negative light on the Conservative party by admitting Mulroney accepted payoffs? Moreover, what happened to the $300,000 potential bribe that Mulroney received? How did Mulroney not only receive no consequences but also get compensation for apparent defamation and legal fees totaling $4.1 million? I speculate that Harper promised Johnston an appointment to Governor General if he did not find Mulroney to be in a conflict of interests. Conclusively, it is quite evident that apart from court appearances and some legal hassles, Brian Mulroney came out the victor in his divorce with