I can point to one example. When I was actually asking about the contract that we were talking about on the feasibility of altruistic embryo donation, at the time the president was making all these negative body language things. I had to ask her to please stop making all that negative body language--rolling her eyes, tsking when I was trying to ask questions--i.e., what happens if it turns out in the study that it's not feasible to have altruistic donation? I was asking because I didn't understand why AHRC would contract to do something on this.
First of all, it's in the legislation that we can only have altruistic embryo donation, so why were we looking at the feasibility of it? I asked, “So if it's not feasible, are we going to mount a public education campaign?” I was told no. I was honestly not understanding why we would undertake this kind of research, and I was made to feel stupid for asking the question.
This is just one example.