Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you both for being here today.
Madame Drouin, I'd like to just go back to your opening comments with regard to what you said about September 12. I understand that you had a conversation with the Department of Finance on September 12 to the effect that SNC-Lavalin was still in discussions with the DPP and you said, “I therefore understood that the DPP's position on whether to invite SNC to negotiate a remediation agreement was not [yet] final.”
Did you have any reason to believe by September 17 that those discussions had concluded?