Thank you, Minister, for those remarks.
It begs the question as to why for the last three months we've had to pursue this issue. You've had, really, since December 9 to give the clarifying remarks you've just given.
Why wouldn't you have just simply, once the confusion started to arise--confusion, as you describe it--said what you said today? I'm assuming that what you said is that Stephanie Machel, your chief of staff, signed the document. Is that correct?