Mr. Comartin, that's a very good question. What I knew was that the members at the time transmitted certain information to the Americans about what Mr. Arar's status was to the RCMP. We told the Americans four days before he was deported that we can't link him to al-Qaeda, we can't lay a criminal charge against him, and we can't detain him or prevent him from coming to Canada.
Now I realize that when the members were telling them, they weren't actually telling them to correct the record, because as I've learned since, when the members testified before O'Connor, they said that if the Americans had this wrong impression or false information, the testimony or information about Mr. Arar not being linked to al-Qaeda was given to them and should have corrected the record. That's what I was referring to about correcting the record.
If the false information had gone, which we didn't know had gone, the effect of telling the Americans that we can't link him to al-Qaeda, we can't arrest him, and we can't detain him should have been to correct the false information they may have had.