In his testimony, Schreiber made allegations that described "... a Canadian party leader subverted and deposed by foreign interests, of federal contracts being used to funnel money back to those interests, of bid-rigging and kickbacks.

From this position, based on verbal testimony of the Canadian tankers, they engaged several tanks ( including Tigers ) and self-propelled guns driving up the main road and across the open ground towards Hill 112.

section 13 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees that witnesses may not have any incriminating evidence they gave as testimony used against them in separate proceedings.

His testimony was part of the evidence considered by the Canadian judge who ordered Graham's extradition to the United States in February 2005.

The first priority of the committee was Canadian defense, and the committee relied on both plans developed by previous explorations of the issue and information that the committee developed on its own from the testimony of experts.

* April 2 — The United States blogger Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters discloses information about Brault's testimony, countervening the Canadian publication ban.

They included the personal testimony of elders and representatives from a number of groups, among them the Halifax Redress Committee ; the British Columbia Coalition of Head Tax Payers, Spouses and Descendants ; ACCESS ; the Ontario Coalition of Head Tax Payers and Families ; the CCNC ; the Edmonton Redress Committee of the Chinese Canadian Historical Association of Alberta ; and the National Redress Alliance.

The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society lodged a complaint to the Press Council of Quebec and Quebec Premier Jean Charest called the article a " disgrace " and, in an open letter to the Globe, wrote that it was a testimony to her ignorance of Canadian values which demonstrated a profound incomprehension of Quebec society.

Jesionek's testimony was refuted by Meyer and as a result Meyer's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Canadian Major General Christopher Vokes, who considered all evidence against him circumstantial.

Amir Attaran also brought forward testimony in stark contrast to then Canadian Ambassador to Afghanistan David Sproule's.

Schreiber stated in his Canadian House of Commons testimony on November 29, 2007 that he had been a lay judge, for nine years in Germany.

On November 21, 2007, the website ctv. ca reported that the Canadian House of Commons Ethics Committee had struck a deal to hear testimony from Schreiber as soon as possible, possibly in advance of any possible extradition.

On April 6, 2005, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Joe Volpe, asked the parliamentary Ethics Commissioner and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) to investigate Grewal following his testimony to a parliamentary committee.

He is currently famous chiefly for his testimony into the deportation and imprisonment of Maher Arar, which occurred during his tenure as Canadian ambassador to Syria.

The contents were not released even a year later to members of Canadian Parliament who were demanding to see the transcripts of the testimony.

Rights against self-incrimination had existed in Canadian law even before the Charter, but these applied to cases in which an individual might incriminate him or herself while giving testimony in another person's trial.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an " improper physical relationship " with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

In July 1991, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, in the context of the outing of his press aide Pete Williams, dismissed the idea that gays posed a security risk as " a bit of an old chestnut " in testimony before the House Budget Committee.

In testimony to the House Financial Services Committee in 2009, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman said he " would not think that any hedge fund or private equity fund would become a systemically-critical firm individually ".

The bipartisan House committee in front of which Clemens appeared, citing seven apparent inconsistencies in Clemens ' testimony, recommended that the Justice Department investigate whether Clemens lied under oath about using performance-enhancing drugs.

In a letter sent out February 27 to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said Clemens ' testimony that he " never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone warrants further investigation ".

According to testimony by captured al-Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah, U. S. officials believed the White House was the intended target.

According to further testimony by Sheikh Mohammed, bin Laden preferred the Capitol over the White House as a target and Sheikh Mohammed revealed that the interview to Fouda was a lie to make the 9 / 11 attacks seem larger than they were.

Then, in testimony before the House Rules Committee on May 7-8, Post proved " a convincing speaker with a caustic tongue " and defended himself so successfully that Congressman Edward W. Pou, a Democrat presumed to be an enthusiastic supporter of Palmer, congratulated him: " I feel that you have followed your sense of duty absolutely.

A turning point in Kazan's career came with his testimony as a " friendly witness " before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952 at the time of the Hollywood blacklist, which cost him the respect of many liberal friends and colleagues.

Kazan remained controversial in some circles until his death for testimony he gave before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) in 1952, a period that many, such as journalist Michael Mills, feel was " the most controversial period in Hollywood history.

His controversial stand during his testimony in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) in 1952, became the low point in his career, although he remained convinced that he made the right decision to give the names of Communist Party members.

Hiss was in effect found guilty of espionage ; the statute of limitations had run out for that crime, but he was convicted of having perjured himself when he denied that charge in earlier testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

The rest of the contemporary objections, however, were ad hominem, focusing on Bohm's sympathy with liberals and supposed communists as exemplified by his refusal to give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Only on February 26, 1973, during testimony before the United States House Committee on Appropriations, did the U. S. military officially confirm that they had been utilizing UAVs in Southeast Asia ( Vietnam ).

Judge Elliott found that Calley's trial had been prejudiced by pretrial publicity, denial of subpoenas of certain defense witnesses, refusal of the United States House of Representatives to release testimony taken in executive session of its My Lai investigation, and inadequate notice of the charges.

After damaging testimony from White House Counsel John Dean, Nixon requested the resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman in what has been described as a long and emotional meeting at Camp David.

Although McCarty's testimony helped to indict John Dolan, the district attorney — one of the powerful " House " faction leaders — disregarded Wallace's order to set McCarty free after his testimony.

On March 31, 2009, in testimony that the LA Times viewed as " remarkable ", Ronstadt spoke to the United States Congress ' House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment & Related Agencies, attempting to convince lawmakers to budget $ 200 million in the 2010 fiscal year for the National Endowment of the Arts.

In 1986 the AJC submitted testimony to the United States House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, on the topic of violence and discrimination towards Arab-Americans.

* March 2007: In testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg expressed support for H. R.

* February 2007: In testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, EPIC staff counsel Allison Knight testified in support of the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007.

* March 2005: EPIC urged lawmakers to regulate Choicepoint and other data brokers in testimony before the House Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection.

The House Rules provide that the Chairman of a Committee presides over its meetings, maintains decorum and ensures that the Committee adheres to the House Rules governing Committees and generally acts in an administrative role respective to such issues as determining salaries of committee staff, issuing congressional subpoenas for testimony and issuing committee reports.

In July, 2011, after addressing the House of Commons in the wake of James and Rupert Murdoch's parliamentary testimony in the News International phone hacking scandal, Cameron was reported to have been received enthusiastically by the Committee, later that night.

The SHAC website said it published names and addresses only so that people could protest within the law, but testimony to the British House of Commons in 2003 included excerpts from a document reported to have come from SHAC, which advised activists on tactics for protests outside targets ' homes.

Gillani also denied Snowdy's claim in testimony before the Commons committee investigating the issue, while the Globe and Mail reported that Snowdy had filed for bankruptcy in 2009 to cover over $ 13 million of debt, including $ 2 million of taxes owed.

The next morning, November 29, he arrived at the House of Commons, where he was given a room for personal use, and to review his documents ( which he was able to retrieve from his Ottawa home ), prior to his testimony before the Ethics Committee.

In his testimony before the Commons Ethics Committee on November 29, Schreiber further elaborated on this situation.

Outside of these acts, however, little was done between 1854 and 1900, and moneylenders used this to their advantage, sometimes abusively ; the report of the House of Commons Select Committee on Money-Lending in 1898 included testimony from one moneylender who admitted he charged 3, 000 % interest, while another had worked under 34 different aliases to avoid having notoriety associated with his name.