As I told you earlier, I wasn't at the Treasury Board at that time. I got there on June 1. I saw the document that talked about accounting solutions. As a professional accountant and former auditor, it goes without saying that this kind of question startled me. I discussed it with the document's authors, and I was told that a number of different opinions had been issued by lawyers and accountants on this matter. The following comment was directed at me: “I'm not a accounting or legal post-graduate. You're submitting a number of different opinions to me, and I'd like to know exactly where we stand from an accounting point of view.”
The choice of words wasn't very appropriate, but that's the answer I was given. I'm not here to analyze intentions; I deal in facts.