did not tell Schreiber at that time that the Bear Head project, which had in 1988 received initial Cabinet approval from three ministers, as well as the Nova Scotia government, was cancelled in 1990. Schreiber said he had met with Mulroney and cabinet minister Elmer MacKay at the prime minister's residence, 24 Sussex Drive, in March 1993, to discuss the Bear Head project. This contradicted Mulroney's sworn statement made at his 1996 libel trial that he had had no business with Schreiber. Schreiber said that no receipt or invoice was issued at the time for the C$300,000 deal with Mulroney. Special adviser David Lloyd Johnston delivered his report on the Mulroney – Schreiber matters to Prime Minister Harper, as scheduled on 11 January 2008. Johnston found 16 significant questions requiring further examination. Schreiber enlisted the aid of extradition law expert Gary Botting, who was preparing to challenge the validity of the Canada-Germany bilateral extradition treaty in the Federal Court on the basis that it had never been ratified by Parliament. Schreiber's bail order stated that he must give himself up within 48 hours of receiving notice that the Minister of Justice had issued a final surrender order. The RCMP served this notice at 5 p.m. on the Friday before Labour Day, giving Schreiber no time to appeal. Botting flew to Toronto, where he and Greenspan mounted a last-ditch effort to challenge the surrender order before the Ontario Superior Court. However, the judge refused the application, and Schreiber was placed on a plane bound for Germany that afternoon. Tax evasion conviction in Germany After Schreiber's arrival in Germany, a German court in Augsburg took control of the proceedings and announced that it would hear only charges that he evaded income tax on C$45.6-million earned from negotiating the sale of helicopters, aircraft, and armaments. In May 2010, the court found Schreiber to be guilty of tax evasion of €7.3million, and sentenced him to eight years in prison. This decision was overthrown by a German court on 6 September 2011. On retrial in 2013, Schreiber was sentenced to six and a half years in prison, but the sentence is being served through house arrest on health grounds. In books Schreiber's career in Canada is detailed in the 2001 book by Stevie Cameron and Harvey Cashore, The Last Amigo: Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal. He is prominent in Cameron's On the