Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Commissioner, you said you did not know that false or misleading information had been initially conveyed to the U.S., but you learned that it had been corrected during the time of his detention, which was presumably when you learned of this development.
My first question is, once you learned that false and misleading information conveyed to the U.S. authorities had been corrected, in your own words, why was the Canadian government not briefed about that fact? Why did the RCMP continue to convey false and misleading information to Canadian authorities after they had already corrected it with American authorities, and doing so even after Maher Arar's return to Canada?
Second, once you learned again about the false and misleading information to the United States, why did the RCMP, as Justice O'Connor has reported, not support the one voice initiative letter to Syria, which, as Justice O'Connor reports, undermined facilitating his earlier release and return to Canada? My question here is, were you involved in the discussions regarding the one voice initiative? If yes, were you supportive of it? If not, why were you not involved?
My third and last questions is, whether or not the damaging leaks came from the RCMP, once these damaging leaks were publicly made to the Canadian public, one year after the initial detention of Maher Arar, why did you not correct the public record? Since you knew that the false and misleading information had been corrected to the Americans one year earlier, Commissioner, why did you not speak up and correct the public record here in Canada, where Maher Arar's reputation and that of his family was being badly damaged, after it was clear that there was no evidence against him?