Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciated your written presentation, Mr. Martin.
I want to follow up on a few things. You infer that provincial consultations would be pretty necessary. You say:
As a practical matter, if we expect the provinces to be full and willing partners in the implementation of a national sustainable development strategy, it would be important to engage them in its development, including the definition of its goals and targets, and in a discussion of which level of government would be held accountable for their achievement.
There have been questions that have touched on that a bit already, but how long are you talking about for the kind of consultation you're inferring here? You have “extensive meetings required over a period of time”. What length of process are you looking at there?