Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being with us today. We look forward to this study.
I'd just like to ask you a bit about the consultation process in the last year and a half. You mentioned that up to 2015 there was some discussion for almost eight or nine years, but it seems to me when talking to people in industry that they were surprised by the fact that this was dropped on them in November, that people didn't have a lot of knowledge that this was coming, or whatever. Then there was a fairly short comment period.
Actually I think the committee was caught by surprise as well, and of course we had our Christmas break and this was as soon as we could have hearings on this issue. Can you tell me what the process was in the last year or year and a half in terms of industry and the interest groups that might have been involved?