Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:

Mr. Speaker, since the Federal Court's McGillis ruling has laid the board's independence open to question, the departments, the ministers and the secretaries of state must realize that they would be jeopardizing the very independence of the Copyright Board and the principle of equity itself.

OPT:
 a). Yes
 b). It's impossible to say
 c). No
Hypothesis: Mr speaker was the one being spoken to



a).