Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Minister, thank you for being here today. I just want to follow up on a couple of points that have been made.
When you went through the chronology of events in your testimony, you talked about how this was building up, and media reports started tracking this on December 5, indicating a developing health crisis. You talked about a number of e-mails that were received, yet there was no indication in any of these e-mails or correspondence.
What was the quality of that information that was coming to you? What made you bridge the gap that you had to make this phone call to AECL to, as the opposition was saying, infringe on their autonomy? And what were those powers, in your opinion, that you thought the president could have used and did not?