But I didn't have any notes back then. The only information I had was in the report. Back then, at the time, when I involved myself, once Mr. Arar was in Syria, I asked what had taken place, who was Mr. Arar, and I was told he was a person of interest. I was told that we'd exchanged investigative information with the Americans. I was told that we advised them that we couldn't charge him. That is what I was told, and that is what we subsequently told the minister and briefed up.
It's only when I read the report that I found out, besides that, that there were some errors that had been made previous to his detention in New York by investigators. Justice O'Connor said those mistakes were honest mistakes, and that's why they weren't briefed up. So they never came to me or to my senior officials.