Thank you for your question, Mr. Dosanjh.
Nothing changed. I did have a telephone conversation with Ms. Rennie Marcoux, and during that telephone conversation I was advised that PCO would go public with a statement indicating we had not advised them.
We discussed it. I failed to understand at the time why there was a need to do that, given that I had neither confirmed nor denied whether or not I had advised them of anything. All the questions I had answered were hypothetical questions that were posed to me, and therefore I had some difficulty understanding the need to go public with a statement indicating we had not contacted them. They nevertheless chose to do that, and that's their right.
Then the RCMP, with that in mind, had a very clear idea that our phones were going to ring the next day with the media asking questions about this statement, so we had media lines prepared simply to answer. With PCO having gone public with the fact that we had not contacted them, we were left with really very little choice. It was either to get into a he-said-she-said situation or to simply confirm that. We took the avenue of confirming it. That's simply it.