I don't believe we disrupted anything. I don't believe we told anyone to stop the process. As a matter of fact, if you read some of the prior testimony--and you've been sitting on this committee for a while--you can see that nothing was disturbed. The civil servants kept on going. They kept on doing their analysis; they kept on doing what they were doing on the file.
At one point, also, Mr. Arès writes to the gentleman who was deputy minister for the Economic Development Agency of Canada. He even outlines in his letter what his schedule is, and never in that particular letter does he say that there have been delays referred to or done by the officers. He mentions at one time in other documentation the officers of the department. I have never been an officer of the department, because as a chief of staff, you don't have any delegation of authority as far as signatures or directions are concerned, so I can't—