He said he is hoping negotiations are going well, he was not stating that they are going well.
"hopefully that will hold and that the negotiations for funding are going very well"
If someone did know that for a fact it would be beyond stupid to post on public message board.
There are 90 million shares outstanding, there isn't a mystery source buying, it's the stock market.
In Canada so far today only 17,000 shares have traded and 6 different brokerage firms are listed for the trades.