So it was unexpected. The very next day, candidate Larry O'Brien issued a public letter to John Baird basically asking the same thing. So the day after Mr. Poilievre raises it with the city, Mr. O'Brien, in the middle of the election campaign, goes public, and he asks John Baird to intervene in this situation.
Now, this is in the middle of a very contentious municipal election. I've written many letters to ministers as a member of Parliament. In fact, I wait sometimes months, sometimes half a year, for them to bother responding. And yet in the middle of a municipal campaign, John Baird responds to a candidate who obviously has his own personal interest in raising this.
Mr. Kirkpatrick, were you surprised to get the letter from John Baird asking to see the contract?