Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome.
Mr. d'Aquino, you've been around a long time. You've seen a lot of administrations come and go. You've seen various administrations up here come and go. I would like to ask a political question. Obviously, in your modelling of what you do, and over the years that you have been doing it, you sit and watch the states fight against an administration of the United States as provinces here develop different standards. You watch as groups like the auto industry, for instance, try to meet all of these various standards and have great difficulties doing it. Also, you're watching as federal administrations north and south of the border are not providing the grid kind of framework that is needed for the kinds of things that are being built.
You talk about two federations and how we need to harmonize. I understand that. But the question of politics always enters into it, and this picks up a little bit on what Ms. Brown said. We live a life here in Canada, it seems to me, of successive minority Parliaments. So every time you do a model of something you want to do for your organization, suddenly there's an election and something gets switched again. I know this is happening. I'm glad I'm not in the boardroom listening to you guys as you talk about this, but I know it must be deeply frustrating. Every time you think you're getting somewhere, all of a sudden something changes.
Here is my question for you. In regard to the institutions that we have as a federal government, regardless of who is in power at that particular time, how do you see strengthening those institutions so they survive those transitions? In other words, you would have a federal government come in and you might have a totally different environmental standard, or other things. I know you look at that. You're trying to be in it for the long haul. We often play for the next year, up to the next election. What are the ways in which you, in your organization, can help us to transition, so that whoever is in power at that particular point has institutions there that can help us build on the successes you've already put out there?