Thank you very much.
Thank you for bringing this up, because we did welcome appearing here. I want to make it very clear that we came here willingly. I want to make it very clear that it is absolutely untrue what was said by a member here that I had refused to come on the 18th. There was no schedule for me to come. That can be verified, sir. On the 23rd, there was a request early on to change that and it was agreed upon. We gave an alternate date. So we are here voluntarily and we welcome being here.
In terms of what appeared in the paper, I did not read that. It was not sent to me directly. It's my best recollection. I perhaps would not have used the same language, but there clearly has been some concern at the type of things that have happened before this committee, the kind of irresponsible accusations that were levelled at us, the kind of utterly confused timelines that were given by the staff, an impression that was created--