Mr. Chairman, as you can imagine, when the matter surfaced, government agencies, the Privy Council Office, everybody was concerned about these things, because they are serious issues and we all take them very seriously. Of course, this led to us starting to provide briefings. As soon as the matter started to become very public and people were concerned, everybody started to provide information, working up briefing notes and so on, and getting the information together. Some of it took a long time to get. It wasn't easy. It's in different parts of the country with different agencies, so the coordination of that took a long time.
It was almost immediately that we started preparing this information. As you can imagine, ministers are concerned. The PCO, bureaucrats, we all wanted to know. I wanted to know what was going on, so it was almost immediately that the machinery in government and the departments kicked into place to come to the bottom of what took place. So the briefings started. Justice O'Connor refers to that.