Thank you very much, Mr. Fitzpatrick.
I have a few questions myself, and then I want to move to a few of the members who really haven't had an opportunity. Then we have a brief meeting after to deal with the most recent report of the steering committee.
I want to go back to perhaps you, Mr. St-Jean, and to Mr. Wiersema. I want to get a clear understanding of the so-called pecking order of who makes the decision. We had a situation here in February that there was a dispute as to how a certain expenditure was to be handled from a financial accounting point of view and from an appropriation point of view. I'm not totally clear on something. You were the acting Comptroller General, Mr. Wiersema. There were a number of people at this meeting, there were different views, and a decision was made to seek legal opinion. But was there anyone at the meeting who had the final say, that this is the way we're going to handle it?