Thank you, Madam Chairperson, and thanks to all of you for your presentations.
I want to begin by stating to Dr. Engelhardt and Mr. Sternthal that you're telling me today much of what you told me on February 19, after I wrote to the minister asking for an explanation of this decision. I said to you at that time that I didn't believe you then, and I don't believe you now.
In fact, there are so many contradictions in the testimony of you two, Dr. Butler-Jones, and the minister that one can't even keep up with the changing message coming out of your government, which only leads us to believe that you've all been given a talking point and you're getting it mixed up. You can't quite all get it out the same because in fact there is no truth behind it.
Let me point out of few of the contradictions and then ask Bill Cameron, Dr. Gerson, and Dr. Sekaly for their understanding of why this could have happened, because what's been said officially just does not make any sense. I find it hard to believe, both Steven and Rainer, that you don't read the newspaper. In fact, it was reported in December 2009 that there was a web page announcement saying the whole project had been pulled, and you say you don't know--