Yes, certainly, Mr. Chairman. I think many of you will recall, and it has been mentioned a number of times, that on January 13, 2004, the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Bill Graham, wrote a letter to his counterpart, Mr. Colin Powell, indicating essentially our mutual interest to ensure that this type of activity did not happen again and that we wished to consult on such cases in the future. Mr. Powell then wrote back confirming to Mr. Graham his understanding, and together these two letters form what we consider to be an understanding between the Government of Canada and the United States government, which continues today.
So Mr. Graham, in his foresight, at the time sought to say that, before we even came down with the results of the O'Connor commission, we saw there was a particular issue here with the U.S, and the government of the day felt it could resolve this. Together they produced the Monterrey Protocol, which in fact is being implemented. Officials on both sides, in both administrations, in the current Government of Canada and in the department that Condoleezza Rice now runs, are implementing this Monterrey Protocol.
If the committee would like a copy of it, we do have it here.