Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Colvin, let me just say at the outset that as the son of a foreign service officer, I am very proud of your performance.
I want to ask you to try to explain for me why you think it took 17 months for the Canadian government to realize that something had to change.
You sent an action memo in May 2006, and in your affidavit to the military commission you describe a number of memos and information that you provided. I wonder if you can now, in reflection, tell us why you think it took so long for the Canadian government to realize that the procedures had to change because something had substantially gone wrong.