Fair enough. You're right. That was their ultimate goal, and unfortunately....
Mr. Mayor, I want to go to a statement that your chief of staff made. There was a text sent back and forth to the Minister of Public Safety. This is from your chief of staff, Mr. Arpin, to Minister Mendicino: “I assume that you must understand how spectacularly ridiculous the contention is that we could be meeting with them when your level of government trots out a number of ministers to denigrate the demonstrators and let them know that dialogue is impossible with the Government of Canada in the context of a demonstration targeting the government of Canada but somehow we should divine that we should be meeting with them to make them feel heard. That's nauseating to say the least. But thanks for sharing frankly.”
Mr. Watson, I have a quick question for you. Those are his words. Would it be fair to say that they are reflective of how you felt at that time as well?