There was no question of propriety.
In fact, we had agreed with the government to renew the database for another period. That had been formally completed with the Ministry of Health, and we were rebuilding it around an additional study looking at addiction and death in COVID. There was no rationale.
The government lied by saying that they were planning to do this anyway, which clearly was not true. If it were, there would certainly have been some prior communication about that. They said things that really didn't make any sense—that we could get the data from other sources, which is clearly false. There is no other way to get these data.
The only rationale that makes sense to me, and I've had this confirmed from one of the deputies that was in the room, was that my remarks antagonized some of the deputy ministers because they got the impression that I was saying their policies addressing addiction and homelessness were not effective.