What Mr. Sparrow was doing was being prudent. He was trying to make sure that Canadians got information from our department that was reasonable, realistic, and responsible. It would be irresponsible to be asked for actual data on an event that hadn't even occurred yet. What he was doing was the prudent thing. We hadn't been asked for estimates or forecasts or anything else; we had been asked for actuals. Those numbers did not exist, and his response was prudent and not out of the ordinary. As soon as actual numbers were available after the campaign had been completed, those were provided within three weeks, even though there was a longer time period available to us to release them.
On May 4th, 2010. See this statement in context.