No, you're wrong. It's exactly the responsibility of Treasury Board to exercise value judgments with respect to things that come before it. With respect, it is. Otherwise, why would you bother having a meeting? The officials would just have the responsibility to approve all the money.
At the end of the day, we did have a responsibility to exercise due diligence, to ask important questions about value for money, and the other.... So you're wrong there.
With respect to the dates, we were told that it had to be passed by October 1, it had to be passed by October 4, and it had to be passed by October 15 and October 5. We were getting so many answers that I said, “Show me where it says we have to make a decision or there's no penalty”. I asked, I got the contract, and sure enough, I was exactly right. I had been misled, and there was a 60-day delay explicitly contemplated in the contract, just for this purpose. The federal contribution agreement had not been signed. You could have a 60-day delay.