What I meant by that was.... Keep in mind that Prime Minister Martin had given me the specific mandate on December 13 to get to the bottom of the Maher Arar case. Prime Minister Martin was also calling for me to review whether additional oversight of the force was required in relation to their national security activities. So I think it's fair to say that the coming together of those two things was very much on the mind of Commissioner Zaccardelli in terms of what mechanism might be put in place to get to the bottom of what happened. Clearly, the mechanism would be one of interest not only to the commissioner and the RCMP but to CSIS and other agencies within government.
I would say that in my mind there was no question that the Arar situation, what happened to Mr. Arar, why it happened, and how we were going to get to the bottom of that was very much front and centre for Commissioner Zaccardelli. My sense of that was that the commissioner quite rightfully was concerned, as we would expect someone in his position to be, about what happened. He was concerned about the things Mr. Arar was saying upon his return in relation to what had happened. I would hope that anyone responsible and the head of a force like the RCMP would be concerned and would want to know what happened and would make sure that corrective measures were taken, so that if mistakes were made, they weren't made again.