Well, I don't really want to comment on the minister saying whatever he said, or misrepresenting it, because I don't really know what the minister said. What I'm really going on is the stories that emerged in the media.
But regardless of what the minister said, even if the minister had not said what was reported in the media, the fact that in the media and in the public there is this perception that Statistics Canada is supporting a decision that no statistician would, it really casts doubt on the integrity of that agency, and I, as the head of that agency, cannot not survive in that job
So it doesn't really matter what the minister said. It is what the perception is out there; that really is the deciding factor.