In a bankruptcy protection proceeding, which is the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act proceeding, representative counsel may be appointed by the justice. That representative counsel is then directed by a steering committee. The steering committee represents persons who represent the constituent groups. In the Nortel case, Koskie Minsky was appointed to be the representative counsel for the disabled, for the pensioners, and for the terminated workers. I think from the numbers we saw from Don's presentation, approximately 25,000 people in total were represented by Koskie Minsky.
There were two steering committees. One was for the pensioners and the terminated workers, which was chaired by Mr. Sproule, and there was a single person steering committee for the disabled, chaired by a person named Sue Kennedy. So what happened in the negotiations.... First of all, there was one representative counsel for all, and the two steering committees joined together for the negotiation of the settlement. It was the opinion of the dissenting long-term disabled, I and Mr. Rochon as legal counsel retained by them, that the 400 people who were long-term disabled did not have their interests served as 400 people because no effort was made to establish.... Basically, in the settlement there was a denial of the right to sue the parties involved with the health and welfare trust to gain remedy for the $100 million that was missing from the trust. So it was the opinion of Joel Rochon delivered to the court that there was a conflict of interest as a result of the long-term-disability steering committee joining in the negotiation with the other 24,600 people represented.