Thank you very much. It's hard to fit it all into seven minutes.
I'm trying to deal with the incongruity of the messages from the board, Dr. Braun. Last week you issued a statement--I have it from the Ottawa Citizen--saying that you welcome public hearings on Rights and Democracy. It was signed by seven members of the board. It said how much you were looking forward to it, and you were calling upon Parliament to hold public hearings so that facts can replace fantasies, so we can move ahead, and that Rights and Democracy should be nobody's football. That was signed by seven, including Dr. Marco Navarro-Génie.
Imagine my surprise when I read in the National Post two days ago an onslaught attack on this committee by Dr. Navarro-Génie. Did he discuss his letter or his publication with you before it went into the National Post? Did you have any knowledge of this?