We've talked to lots of people who were at the hotel and nobody was questioned -- either there or at the airport or when they got back to Thunder Bay.

They're picking on these women, they're picking on the wrong people.

It is preposterous to think that they could be involved in any kind of criminality. They have not had so much as a speeding ticket in their lives.

We hope this will be discussed between them.

They're not cleared, but they did go voluntarily and give statements to Thunder Bay police.

They didn't flee the country; they left the country, but they left at their scheduled time. The flights had been booked weeks and weeks and weeks before.