First of all, let's start right from the beginning of the discussion on November 22. To go to the point—and excuse me for not understanding the protocol—I'd like it read into the record that the three major people who were represented at the meeting on the afternoon of November 22 were Brian McGee from Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Sylvana Guindon from Natural Resources Canada, and me representing MDS Nordion. There were other people there—frankly, I don't remember their names—but I think these are the keys you need for this discussion.
Throughout this whole process—and at this point in time, I went on business to Australia—there were a number of discussions going on in the week of November 28 that were trying to understand where the hot points would be to get this reactor started up. Certainly we were in contact with Atomic Energy of Canada. They were the ones we were in contact with daily to understand this situation. That was our primary government contact.
Our view is that they report through to the Minister of Natural Resources Canada. What their communication protocol is we do not understand or know completely, but they are our conduit through this. We would have assumed that the minister or minister's staff, or somebody at Natural Resources, would be aware of the ongoing situation, the flux that was going on and its restart dates.
Going back to the question that was answered earlier about what we knew and when we knew it, we knew at the time of our November 30 press release that it could be mid-December if this one-pump option were to be implemented and the NRU restarted. By December 5, the landscape had changed a bit. It now looked as though it would be a two-pump option that was going to be required to restart the reactor, and that it therefore wouldn't happen until January. That's what is recorded in our press release.
That's the best information we had in terms of what would be done and when.