We're ready to start our second hour.
Mr. Hamilton, we are still challenged to provide the interpreters with a clear enough audio signal to provide the interpretation in French that we require as part of our system here. We will try a question—Mr. Chong will be first—but if the audio quality isn't up to standard, we will have to impose on you to perhaps provide us with written answers. We'll keep you here, though, to be available for questions, if that's okay.
With that, joining us on our second panel—we hope—is Clive Hamilton, a professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University's Canberra campus.
Online, we have Stephen Nagy, senior associate professor at International Christian University and senior research fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Joining us in person tonight is Alex Neve, a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.
Mr. Hamilton, let's see if you can give us a statement. If not, we do have it printed, so we won't lose that piece if the audio quality isn't good.
We will start the clock at five minutes, but I may have to interrupt.