Well, we had numerous...I don't know if you should say interference, but we had a lot of “heads up” going out. We had things like legal opinions, where it went to legal for approximately six months and it sat there. It was returned after the six-month time period. It came back down and I think it stayed in our office approximately a week and it was sent back for a second legal opinion. Surely one legal opinion would suffice on 50 pages. But it just seemed that everything was a stall tactic from the beginning, when it started.
My colleague Norm Sirois had looked at the file originally, having been asked to do an informal request. I believe he could probably answer that question under the previous OIC, who was Superintendent Picard.
The officer under whom I was serving at the time when I was asked to look at this request and process it was Superintendent Pierre Lavoie. I had looked at it, reviewed it, being a senior member. I had approximately 12 years of experience with this kind of file. He didn't quite agree with what I was going to release, so I was removed from the file. In the long run it was passed to another reviewer, but at that time I was told he was going to do it, along with the lawyer from the Department of Justice, who has been Louis Alberti. They decided what the final release package was, and I understand it was quite heavily vetted at the time.