Fair enough; and you had mentioned that before.
The other question that came up involved the pension buyout and the environmental remediation that came to be settled between the company and the province. I don't see anything unusual with that, and I don't know why the federal government would be involved in that, although some of the questions from my colleagues seem to be headed in that direction.
If we have chapter 11 in place for a reason...and let's be fair and up front here: that reason is to have a dispute mechanism settlement for two entities with different opinions that have no other avenue left but to go to the courts. Hopefully those courts are unbiased and take into consideration all existing laws that are on the books. We ended up, in this case, paying out from the Government of Canada $130 million.
I just don't see what other venue, what other avenue, is available to go through that.
I'm not sure my colleagues aren't suggesting that perhaps this should have been the Province of Newfoundland. I'm a little surprised to hear that, especially from the NDP.
I don't think we have a choice but to respect federal law in Canada and to follow it. Unfortunately, in this case we ended up to be found in contradiction of the rules of international trade, and paid.
Am I oversimplifying this?