Frank Moores felt very strongly about the issue and wanted to do something about it. He put together a group of people, which consisted of members of his cabinet, some experts from the biological veterinarian side, and some sealers, and they travelled to Europe to convince Europeans, and to America as well. The problem with that kind of a situation is that the anti-sealing people simply ambush you if you go and do any kind of public presentation. This is just fodder for their machine. The media essentially will follow the protestor, not the explainer, and they had to call it off. They got ambushed in Washington, they got ambushed in London, they got ambushed in France, and they called it off.
The intention was very, very good. Travelling circuses like that, when you are dealing with very well-informed, very well-organized, very astute protest organizations, have a tendency to backfire. The individuals on that thing all had very good intentions, and they did individually make some very good remarks. The overall effect of it was negative.