"The contract you entered into required them to immediately cancel their warrants. Is that correct?"
"And jointly decided upon. Is that correct?"
"If they wanted to live up to the deal, they had to get into the queue? Yes or no."
"You could have given them a discount and left it in the warehouse."
"The effect of this arrangement was that the queue was lengthened. Is that correct?"
"You say they had the freedom to break the contract. You entered a contract which, if they lived up to it, required them to move, sometimes a few hundred feet, their metal to another Metro warehouse."
"Most business people do not consider that a choice."
"So the Chinese Wall Policy, even if it is not a tissue paper, is a one-way information barrier."
"In order to have the economic advantages that they saw in this deal, and if they were going to live up to the deal, they had to get into the queue."
"You are just telling us under oath that you did not care whether they canceled or not."
"Different people get that information in different real time. Is that correct?"