I have two quick responses to you, sir. One is that a number of Canadian officials, elected and unelected, made requests to the United States as to what it was they based their decision on. To the best of my knowledge, I do not know of any Canadian official, elected or unelected, who ever got an answer from American authorities on that issue.
With respect to the question as to whether Mr. Arar was or was not a subject of interest, I'm going to do a turtle and retreat into our conundrum on national security confidences, which is that as a matter of principle we neither confirm nor deny whether individuals are or are not subjects of interest to us in an investigation.
I regret saying that, because I understand the frustration that follows it, but that is the general principle that our organization and other intelligence organizations operate on around the world.