On July 19--the following month--there was another memo sent from Mr. Arès to Suzanne Cloutier.
Somebody help me out. Suzanne Cloutier. Who is she? Her title? Nobody knows, okay.
Anyway, there's a memo here, Mr. Gagliano. It says:
Yes, CED has been informed of our strategy and is in full agreement with our approach.
CED is adamant that this project be carried out without any hitches and is even surprised that PWGSC “officials” seem to want to prevent things from going smoothly according to our schedule.
This again is just one more wrinkle. What you answered, on its own, I accept. Now you add this and it's just one more wrinkle. CED are now the ones that are saying go full speed ahead.
Why is your office getting involved, mucking things up, yet at the end of the day that's the department that pulled the plug, that made the recommendation that they ought not go forward? What's with the starting stopping, starting stopping? What's the hesitation? What's being talked about that is such a problem?
Give us some idea. You must have some idea. You paid a lot of attention to real estate in Quebec, particularly in Montreal. You must have some idea what the concerns were of your own officials on a major file.