When I arrived in mid-December of 2003, at that point in time there was certainly one independent inquiry under way. The police complaints commission had announced they were doing one, and SIRC either had done or was doing it very shortly thereafter. There were two inquiries going on, one to do with the RCMP and one to do with CSIS with regard to the situation of Mr. Arar.
The issue for the government of the day was whether or not that was sufficient, whether to wait for the outcome of those inquiries before deciding to do anything else or whether to call an inquiry under the Inquiries Act. Between mid-December and the end of January 2004, they decided to call an inquiry under the Inquiries Act. That was Mr. Justice O'Connor in January of 2004.