I'm stunned by your overwhelming comments, very simply stunned. Thank you very much.
It's good to see everybody, and thank you, Mr. Chair, for having me as a witness. As you know, I have an interest in this because the mill and assets in question are in my riding.
Very quickly, what were the discussions beforehand? When I look at this issue.... We have a situation there with this mill: it's going to need a serious cleanup to remediate the area and the lands. I know there's an ongoing court situation now with the province going to the Supreme Court. But in the meantime, before this money was transferred, and during these lengthy discussions, was there the idea of the federal government's being involved in two things such as, for example, environmental cleanup or even with the pension transfer of some employees that went from the company over to the province? Were any of these discussions made or was it simply “we did bad and we're going to pay you”?