Your colleague did mention the fact that the appeal at Federal Court, if I'm correct, was one of the preponderant factors that brought you to negotiate with Manulife in order to reach that agreement.
If Manulife hadn't yet made the appeal to Federal Court or never made the appeal to Federal Court, if you're blind in the way you suggest you are, would your decision not have been the same in the end because there was the possibility of going to court, or did the fact that Manulife in fact went to court bear on your decision?