Again, as I said, I don't recall such conversations. However, it's not uncommon for me or my staff or others to reach out to a number of people to apply for a number of roles. In some instances, I'd like to tell this committee that we would ask multiple people to apply for the same role, because the idea was that we wanted more people to apply.
This was a new process, and so it was very different from what was done in the past. The whole objective was to encourage a greater pool of applicants. In this particular instance, as the PCO officials indicated, over 100 people did apply. Ultimately that's what we wanted. We wanted more people to apply, not fewer.