We decided to cancel it for two reasons, the first reason being security. As for the second reason, we did understand the sensitivity of people, we understood what they were telling us. The other re-enactments did not create any debate. We had not thought that, in this case, it would go so far. We did expect some reaction, but we were prepared to listen to people and to modify the re-enactment in order to give it more character, more respect.
We are talking about the re-enactment because a decision was made on this issue. You would be surprised to see the list of suggestions that we received from everyone, including historians, in order to remember this battle. One of my mistakes—and I am not perfect, I know—is to have been a bit carried away by the ideas suggested by the historians over the past five or six years. Here I'm referring to all kinds of endeavours such as, for example, organizing the ball or having a ship that could have gone up the St. Lawrence to remind us that it had destroyed all the towns in its path. About 15 of the events that had been submitted to the Quebec access to Information Board were cancelled. We retained the idea for the two battles because this type of thing is done throughout the world and we thought that we could do it.