Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, gentlemen, for coming.
I would agree with your presentation earlier, when my colleague from the Liberal side was talking about whether we could have done something sooner. As an active member of the auto caucus on the Conservative side, which meets with the big North American three and the international manufacturers that are here, I can tell you that at our monthly meetings there was no discussion about what was going to be happening. Things were going well at this time last year, for example. It came as a big surprise, in a sense. We were talking about the automotive innovation fund and so on, into which we put $250 million, and about increasing that.
I have a couple of quick questions for you.
You mentioned the jobless protection system. Are you financing that, or do you have a third party doing that?