Chair, just to put it on the record, the first point I made earlier was just my personal opinion about a committee mandating a hired person to meet with a politician, a minister, and to negotiate one on one. We did send Dr. Franks to meet with the staff, which is the appropriate way to go. It seems to me that it has been reported to us that Dr. Franks can't get further meetings and that they won't talk to him any further.
It's not as if we haven't given the opportunity for any other point of view to be there. We have already approved the protocol, we've done our homework, we've done due diligence, and we've had a democratic vote that has adopted it. It seems to me that voting in favour of this just stands on the toes of what we have already approved. For substantive reasons and procedural ones, then, it seems to me that a majority vote against this is the right thing to do.