Those are comments that Nortel made. They are not my comments or comments of any of my staff, I think. I know Nortel had many meetings with a number of people within the federal government. Along the line, people may have made some comments; they may have interpreted some comments. I don't want to spend my time on characterizing those comments one way or the other.
To the substance of your point, over the course of that period of time, there were a number of plans. There was a base plan, which involved selling one of the business units. There were also other elements. As markets changed, in the context of discussions with us and with EDC, when they were putting up one particular business line and they weren't getting the response from markets that they thought they would get, the plan evolved. At a certain point, for example, they were discussing a strategic merger with another company. At another point in time they would have discussed selling another business. During these various meetings, we constantly sought, as did EDC, to get more information so that there could be some due diligence. Some of the questions we were raising were the same as the ones that surfaced this morning, such as the sustainability of the business or whether the customers were willing to buy into their strategy.
I would add that at that point in time markets were extremely turbulent, and I can understand why their strategy was evolving. So I would hesitate to say we had one plan that was tabled in October and that stayed the same throughout that period of time.