Again, Mr. Chairman, I did not learn of the errors and the mistakes and the mislabelling until the report came out. If I said anything that was inaccurate about what knowledge I had in 2002, I've tried to explain that I was absorbed by the report, and I probably made the mistake of transferring some of the knowledge I acquired in 2006 to what I knew in 2002. In 2002 all I knew was that Mr. Arar was a person of interest. He was from the beginning right until the conclusion of the report.
The other thing that I knew was that we could not arrest him. We could not charge him. We could not prevent him from coming back into Canada. That is all I knew. That is what I was told. That is what I briefed to the minister to the best of my ability, and we continued to provide that information to the minister to the best of our ability. That is what all our senior officers knew. Justice O'Connor clearly states that this information was not briefed because the investigators believed that this was not erroneous information. Justice O'Connor, in his exhaustive auditing of the file, brought it all together and came to this conclusion, which we have accepted totally. We have moved very far in implementing his excellent recommendations to try to prevent these types of mistakes from ever occurring again.