I wasn't involved in any crisis, but the determination of the timing was the requirement that if we were going to require sups, they had to be determined in the next few days. I don't know what the deadline was, but it was something in the first week or ten days of February. I did not see the opinion of the Treasury Board at the time. In fact, I think it's pretty clear when you read it that he uses debt and liability interchangeably. He doesn't answer the question of whether it's a debt or a liability.
On June 8th, 2006. See this statement in context.