No. I became minister and my focus was getting to the bottom of it. We knew that the questions were growing, and my obligation, at the request of the Prime Minister, was to get to the bottom of this matter--hence the O'Connor inquiry. In fact, I believe, more so now than ever, that it was the responsible course of action, because now all Canadians understand what happened. That was my focus.
We knew that things had happened that had raised serious questions. Those questions were being raised by Mr. Arar and his own lawyer, being raised by the press and others, and my goal was to find and put in place a mechanism by which we could all get the facts so the rumour and the innuendoes and the leaks would hopefully stop and we would actually have an independent, credible third party be able to tell all of us what happened and why. That was my focus.