In my position at the Department of Finance I had overall senior oversight responsibility for international operations in the financial sector, as well as budgetary responsibilities, and I was the alternate member of FSC, which is the financial stability committee, if you will. So it was in that context that I was involved, and continued to be involved, in the development of the Montreal accord, up until my getting this position.
My role and the government's role was I think to play a coordinating role, when events were moving extremely fast, and to ensure that all parties were aware of the potential consequences of their decisions and the potential value of sitting down and negotiating, taking a period of time and seeing whether there was a better solution than just running against the wall. But it was up to the parties to make that decision.