In no way, shape, or form did I interfere. If the mayor had been able to do a great photo op, hammering in the nail of the first rail 33 days before the election, people would have been able to say that I was interfering in the election and providing the photo op for him.
So we approved the project as it was. It's the city's right to determine what kind of project it is. If they're asking for federal funding, they have to obey our processes, and one of the processes right from the get-go was that it required my committee's approval—the Treasury Board's approval—of the project.