Il n'était pas vraiment clairement dit que si l'on faisait toutes ces choses, si l'on répondait bien aux questions, si l'on trouvait des réponses constructives ou des solutions originales et si la fusion était pertinente, alors le ministre et l'appareil politique du jour autoriseraient le fusionnement.
There was not really clarification in which it was said that if you did all this, answered these questions positively and came up with constructive answers or imaginative solutions to them, and the merger was valid, the minister and the politics of the time would allow a merger to go forward.