Day 248 - 13 May 96 - Page 45


     
     1   MS. STEEL:   OK.  (To the witness):  In paragraph 20, which is
     2        about you using the letter from Greenpeace International or
     3        Limited, it says, "As soon as Greenpeace Limited notified
     4        us of their objection to its" -- "its" being the letter --
     5        "use in our communications with the media, no further
     6        copies were distributed".  Do you remember when it was that
     7        Greenpeace notified you of that objection, Greenpeace
     8        Limited, sorry?
     9        A.  Not precisely, no, I do not.  They did not notify me
    10        per se; they notified the communications people.
    11
    12   Q.   Because the reality is that you actually carried on sending
    13        it out after they had notified you, did you not?
    14        A.  No, not that I am aware of.
    15
    16   Q.   But you do not really know when that letter was received?
    17        A.  I do not know when the letter was received.  I do
    18        believe my people when they told me as soon as they
    19        received it they stopped sending out the Greenpeace Limited
    20        correspondence.
    21
    22   Q.   You believed them because you basically believe everything
    23        they say?
    24        A.  I believe them because they told me.  They had no
    25        reason to say anything else.
    26
    27   Q.   But the point is that your basis for believing them was
    28        because you believe everything they say?
    29        A.  No, I do not believe everything they say.  I do not
    30        believe anything everybody says.  I question it
    31        occasionally, challenge it.  I believed them in this
    32        instance.
    33
    34   Q.   But not because they provided you with any proof of that
    35        being the case?
    36        A.  Well, they were asked to stop doing something.  They
    37        told me they stopped.  As far as I am concerned, that was
    38        the end of the matter.
    39
    40   Q.   You are aware that Greenpeace wrote to you again objecting
    41        to the fact that you had carried on distributing their
    42        letter, even though they had asked you not to?
    43        A.  No, I am not.
    44
    45   Q.   So your Communications Department did not bother to tell
    46        you that?
    47        A.  I am not aware of that letter.
    48
    49   Q.   The final paragraph of your statement, paragraph 21, is all
    50        based on -- with the possible exception of the first 
    51        sentence, not the whole of the first sentence -- with the 
    52        exception of the one picket or possibly two, I think, that 
    53        you said you have seen over the past two or three years
    54        outside your Head Office, the entirety of paragraph 21 is
    55        based on what other people have said to you; is that
    56        correct?
    57        A.  That is correct.
    58
    59   Q.   Right.  Just a couple of points to clear up.  When we were
    60        looking at McDonald's advertising expenditure the other day

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