Thank you, Chair.
I would like to thank all the guests. Honestly, I wish we could do this more often and have this kind of question-and-answer approach, because we know it's important in how we do our work. I could say that when I got up in the House and asked questions concerning XL Foods, I wasn't doing that to get points; I was doing it because these were honest questions, and I knew my constituents were curious. I didn't do it to hurt anybody. It was just to get clarity on the issue.
When we're speaking of the budget, the PBO announced, I think in October, that federal spending was going to be 20% lower in 2012-13. I know we're modernizing. I know we're changing the way we do things. Were there any reports or was any analysis done before these reductions?