We looked into that. When I say “we”, I mean that I met with the deputy minister or senior officials on Monday, November 6. I read the letter for myself. The request by Mr. Mulroney's lawyers was to withdraw it. When I asked about that potential course of action I was told that, in effect, it's already spent, it's been acted upon, it's been served on the bank, it's been served on the account holders. Don't forget that on the sixth of November--that's before the Financial Post had published the article--the effort then was to keep this as confidential as possible. The concern was, if an effort was made to withdraw it, that--by going back through the channels and doing such a thing--we might draw more attention to it than if we just remained silent and instead sent a second letter to the Swiss, which we did, making two points: number one, those are only allegations, and number two, please respect the confidentiality of this communication scrupulously.
On February 5th, 2008. See this statement in context.