National Defence committee  If there are recommendations that are going to be on the table, it would be good to have them before starting the draft so one could write to the recommendations, or not. Because otherwise, you end up drafting a report, everybody puts in their recommendations, and we'll be going

National Defence committee  If I can remember, I think it was about three times a week at one point. It was very regular. There was a briefing to the members of the foreign affairs and defence committees of the time. And then there was a daily press briefing where they simply repeated what they had already

National Defence committee  It was about an hour and a half, I think.

National Defence committee  They took questions, yes.

National Defence committee  Pretty much, yes. When I went and then listened to the press conference the story didn't change that much. It was all unclassified. If you're thinking of getting classified briefings, that's not going to happen. That's an important thing to remember here.