That is correct. The meeting in Saskatoon was cancelled. It was scheduled to be for the Monday, and it was cancelled on the Friday. My engagement to be in Yellowknife to read a speech that had nothing to do with official languages was on the Thursday. It was on a holiday and I was going to be coming back to speak for ten minutes on my holiday. Part of the problem is I have many speaking engagements. There are times when I am asked to do two or three things at the same time. I have to make a choice. This is not the first time that I have said that I will do something, and then something else has come up and I couldn't go.
For example, last December I was supposed to meet with the Dene Cultural Institute and I had to cancel because the Assembly called me. There are times when other things arise and I go because I think it is more important, or because I know it is more important. I don't make a habit of it. As I said, if you look at the document that I tabled in December, you will see that I did attend many other speaking engagements. This particular one is not a big concern to the Federation Francophone Tenoise either. I don't know if you even asked anybody who was involved, but it is not a concern to them.
They understand perfectly well what happened. Once I explained to them what it was all about, they said that is fine. It is not even an issue for them. I don't know why the Members are worried about it, other than perhaps wondering why I might have to travel specifically for that issue. I decided that I would not come back to Yellowknife and read the speech for ten minutes because then I would have had to travel specifically back to Saskatoon to deal with that one problem. I didn't think that I should do that. Once it was cancelled, they said they would get back to me, as soon as they could, to rearrange the meeting. I have, since then, talked to them a number of times on the phone.