OTTAWA - The legal counsel has been appointed in a public inquiry into former prime minister Brian Mulroney's controversial dealings with international arms lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber.

Manitoba lawyer Richard Wolson will lead the legal counsel, along with Nancy Brooks of Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP, and Evan Roitenberg, a senior criminal law specialist and president of the Manitoba Criminal Trial Lawyers Association.

Last month, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named Jeffrey Oliphant, associate chief justice of Manitoba's Court of Queen's Bench, to lead the long-awaited investigation. Oliphant, in turn, appointed the commission's legal team.

The inquiry's mandate will be to get to the bottom of questions raised by University of Waterloo president David Johnston, whom the prime minister tapped for advice on the scope of a probe into Mulroney's long, lucrative relationship with Schreiber.

Mulroney testified last fall before a House of Commons committee that he accepted $225,000 in cash-stuffed envelopes from Schreiber in return for promoting German-made light-armoured vehicles abroad.

Oliphant has until June 12, 2009, to report his findings.

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