I don't know the reasons why those witnesses have agreed to cooperate or why they refused to cooperate in the first place. We were advised by Government of Canada counsel in the hearings that each one of those 28 witnesses made their own individual decisions and exercised their own individual consciences to say they did not want to cooperate. Subsequently all 28 have coincidentally said they now want to cooperate and exercise their own individual judgments. So I don't know what each individual had in their mind at the time.
On March 17th, 2010. See this statement in context.