I won't be complaining, Chair. Thank you.
Thank you very much, Dr. Evans.
I want to return to the question I asked earlier, and I realize it's an awkward one and difficult to answer. You're saying no? Okay. Then I won't feel guilty at all about asking.
I was really shaken. I've got to tell you that I was shaken to the core to hear someone of Mr. Kingston's responsibility make the statement that he did. I want to be fair to you and be clear about how you would characterize those comments, because I think it's important. I would suspect that it may get a fair bit of attention, and the public is going to be a bit jarred by hearing that.
Again, his quote was that “it's just a matter of time before you see it happen again”. I asked the question, and my question was very specific and clear, was he talking about similar preventable incidents? He was very clear in saying yes. We've already accepted that zero is impossible, so please do me a favour and don't go into that world about.... We all get that, that it's not possible. But that's very different from what Mr. Kingston said.
So what I would like to hear from you, Doctor, is, do you think that he was being over-the-top fearmongering, whether deliberate or not, or do you believe that he was accurate and that we ought to be as frightened as I think anyone who hears that would be, or is it somewhere in between? If it's somewhere in between, please elaborate, sir.