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
