I believe that during that whole time, which was March to October 2023, he was aware of the situation. He did not just become aware in March and then conveniently forget about the situation for eight months, because again, within the context of the conversation that occurred, something that was continuously explained to me was the fact that there was always this political pressure on the ADM and the deputy minister to give updates and to provide some sort of an end to this investigation. The only reason that would have happened was that there was an ongoing conversation back and forth about the situation.
On September 18th, 2024. See this statement in context.