The senator came out a little late in the process. I heard, through my meetings in Europe over the past year, that the Canadian public doesn't support this and that animal rights groups have spread all that information anyway.
It hurts when anybody, particularly anybody of high profile, mentions it. They use that as ammunition. Did it impact the results? I've said that Parliament made up its mind three years ago, so I don't think you could say it would affect the parliamentarians because it was done with them. Did it affect the countries? I don't know. I can't tell you the impact that countries might have had on this process. I really think an accumulation of factors advanced this issue, and Parliament had been pushing to get it done and pushing those countries.
Everything contrary harms the situation, but to a degree. I wouldn't be able to objectively say it affected the final result. No, I don't think it would be fair for me to draw that conclusion.