Mr. Chair, as I stated in my opening remarks, after providing the initial summary, which was intended as a very initial overview, to the minister's office on June 17, we asked our colleagues in the property branch to provide a more fulsome explanation or chronology of events. In that chronology of events, it was very clear that the head of mission was very much aware that a process was going on and under way, which predated his arrival, and was in no way influential.
When I saw that information and realized how things could be interpreted from my initial email, I took the liberty of ensuring that both the department and the minister's office had the best available information at the time.