--in some way, shape, or form.
There were several complications in respect of this particular matter.
Just as I go past it, John was reminding me that you may wish to check whether or not the province made a claim for the money that was paid in severance under the bankruptcy proceeding in Canada, the CCAA proceeding. We're not aware of whether or not that claim was made. It would have been, it seems to me--I'm not a lawyer--a legitimate claim by the province in a bankruptcy proceeding. So just that fact should be checked.
In the simplest terms, under the law and under international arbitration procedures, companies can take disputes against other companies to international arbitration all the time. The London Court of International Arbitration is there for companies to pursue their disputes, their commercial disputes, with other companies.
What the NAFTA did--as we do in all of our investment protection agreements, and as most countries do in respect of their bilateral investment protection agreements--was to allow investors to access those same international arbitration procedures in respect of the decisions taken by governments. That's the novel part. The rest does seem somewhat straightforward.