That's the difficult judgment that has to be made. But given the fact that it was in writing, that it was for a period of 18 months, it seems to me plausible to conclude that the government in fact would have survived for 18 months. We don't know that. Mr. Dion may well have been the Prime Minister for 18 months or longer under that scenario; we can't predict that. But I think it was a very significant fact that there was an agreement in writing and that it was for a period of longer than 12 months.
On June 10th, 2010. See this statement in context.