I think it's important for the group. We wanted them to consult the 31 communities to express the point of view that the majority of the communities along the right-of-way approved and supported the project, and that the disinformation that you get from environmental websites and people Trudeau met on the west coast is wrong.
There is a lot of support for this pipe because it was going to bring economic development to the first nations who needed it, who were in poverty. Hundreds of young first nations men and women wanted work, and they were looking forward to this type of work. We wanted to prove to the government that when they say they're doing this because the first nations do not want this, it's a lie. The majority of first nations want it.
The only thing they're listening to is the loudest person out there, who is supported by environmentalists and the NGOs. The only problem we had was that we weren't so vocal. We didn't want to get into that type of back and forth. We wanted to have the government meet with these individual communities so that they would be assured they had proper support for this project.