Thank you, Madam Chairman.
If I may just amplify the answer by Mr. Weetman, in the case of the question posed by the minister's office, while in this case the docket was sent to a particular part of the department, in fact there are different parts of the department that had relevant expertise. I was invited as the official responsible for the United Nations, for example, and part of the issue under discussion was what the language might mean in terms of our participation in debates relating to conventions we have signed. The director general for legal affairs was there because of the legal importance of the terms.
So there were different pieces of the department that needed to be brought together to provide the answers that were sought by the minister's office. In addition to that, this was a discussion, as Mr. Weetman has said, that was playing out across a number of issues. So the minister's office used its convening authority, which is one of its principal functions, to bring all these various strands together to have a conversation in order to provide the responses sought by the minister's office.