I want to remind the honourable members of the committee that the government of the day's goal was to map the existing resources by way of drilling. It wanted to quantify how much was there in order to frame the debate. Mr. Blanchet, the environment minister at the time, wanted to find out whether there were indeed resources. His thinking was that the quantity of resources wasn't significant, which could put an end to the debate.
The real purpose was exploratory drilling. As for how distinguished journalist Paul Journet was able to report the comments—