We're basically dealing with two issues. We're dealing with, obviously, the lack of codification as to how this should function. Whoever is the portfolio manager, there needs to be a codification of that, because that's part of the problem. It's failed miserably, and there have been too many assumptions by the portfolio manager about its role. That's number one.
Number two is that we have a legal opinion on the conflict of interest. That legal opinion stands on its own. I won't try to explain that, but we also have manifestation that the conflict exists. What we've heard about in terms of the funding in November 2021, I think, is manifestation of that.
We have many more examples going back over the years about how the conflict exists. We actually had a DFO commissioner come to a commission meeting back in the late 1990s and announce to the commission that Canada was defunding the commission without any consultation with the rest of the Canadian commissioners or with the U.S. This problem goes back decades.
We're really trying to deal with two problems here: a lack of codification and a conflict of interest.