I guess we'll hear from others if they had, but if I take your testimony at face value, I would say that the government didn't have it at the time.
It's my assertion, and I'll put it on the record, that I still haven't necessarily concluded that all of the legal tools were exhausted. However, there's a very serious practical matter, which is that the OPS just failed to act for three weeks. We heard testimony earlier today that they were given discretion on enforcing the law, which led to lawlessness. They took the discretion, which was, in my opinion, a distinction without a difference in terms of their ability to act, their failure to act or their willingness to act.
Did you have to contemplate scenarios where you just couldn't get co-operation on the ground to get things done, much in the same way that they had to call off their own action in the weeks prior to the invocation?