It's not that I didn't know that I wasn't going to get approval about arbitration; it's just that if the result had been outside of the mandate that had been given to our organization and I had put that forward eventually for approval by the President of the Treasury Board.... It was clear that we had to stay within the mandate, so I couldn't guarantee that arbitration would have gone there, and that's what we were trying to understand when we approached Treasury Board.
On November 1st, 2022. See this statement in context.