We received a great deal of advice. We received three reports, including one from the Maplesoft Group, as well as a good many comments from departments and other clients. We actually received a great deal of advice about what we should do. Based on what all the partners and advisors advised us to do, we decided to go ahead with the project. We thought about it, but it is clear that ...
we didn't do some things that we should have done. There were some weaknesses and we've lived through those results, as have a large number of public service employees. For that, I apologize personally. It's deeply upsetting to them. I wish we could have done things differently, but that's in hindsight.
At the time, we felt we had made the right decision to move forward, taking into effect all of the advice. All of the advice found its way into a deck where we informed the minister of the decisions that we were making going forward.