What I said to Warden Smith, and I will say again today, is that I apologize for whatever consultation we did not provide. We did provide, very unusually, an opportunity for Warden Smith and Mayor Bradley to participate in one of our board of directors' calls. Warden Smith is correct that there were only three board members present, but very frequently the board members send their representatives.
We tried to have consultation. We are spread out from Thunder Bay and Duluth to Rimouski and Sept-Îles. To be able to consult on all of these matters.... It arose very quickly. We hadn't been informed of this until late July or early August. We had to make decisions in early September as to filing our comments.
As with many organizations, we have 16 mayors who are members of our board of directors, even if they are not all on a call at one time, they were included.
I have apologized to Warden Smith, and I am sorry that we did not have more consultation.